Tonight, however, many progressives are re-thinking that assumption. Here is an excerpt from the Washington Post's coverage:
Nate Cohn for the New York Times wrote, "In rural Kansas counties, there's bad news for 'yes' to ending abortion rights in Kansas. In heavily Republican areas, 'yes' is running well behind the level of support the anti-abortion measures have received in conservative parts of other states."
In a major victory for abortion rights, Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected an effort to strip away their state’s abortion protections, sending a decisive message about the issue’s popularity in the first political test since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
The overwhelming support for abortion rights in a traditionally conservative state bolsters Democrats’ hopes that the historic Supreme Court ruling will animate their voters in an otherwise difficult election year for their party. The Kansas vote signals that abortion is an energizing issue that could affect turnout in the November midterms.
The question presented to voters here was whether abortion protections should be stripped from the state constitution. A “yes” vote would allow Kansas’s Republican-led legislature to pass future limits on abortion — or ban it altogether — in its coming session in January. A “no” vote would leave those protections in place.
While Kansas is thought of as a rural state, you can see quite a rural-urban contrast in the vote here--or, if you like, a western (rural) Kansas-eastern (urban) Kansas divide.
A few select Tweets about this outcome, which mostly play on Kansas stereotypes, follow: 
Bryan Lowry is a journalist with the Kansas City Star-Tribune
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