Like they say about Georgia, it's not a deeply Red state, it's a deeply voter suppressed state. Same with Texas. It's not for nothing that they closed all the polling places except 1 per county. And why should Democratic policy be based upon what's popular in Red states, states that are most likely, by definition, to be voting Republican in the general election.
We need people like Mancin, and be extension apparently, people like you, like Trump needs more spray tan, which is to say not at all.