Oh no the government is plenty representative of much of the areas outside the deepest Urban Metropolitan parts of Missouri. As long as the legislation does not trip one of the pavlovian bigoted triggers of most missourians they will support it. But typically if it’s too supportive of minorities or has anything to do with Democrats most will refuse to support it just to spite themselves.
In suburbs and exurban areas. The brainwashing is so common and complete. There’s really no hope of winning them without some sort of sea change or generational change. Well that and replacing a lot of the lead pipes. Missouri has a decent lead pipe/led poisoning problem.