President reagan's political view can be summarized by:

Favoring less government at home and being anti-communist abroad. reagan was known as strong anti-communist and his foreign policy led to the fall of communism and colapse of the ussr, in internal politics reagan was known as supporter of free market he deragulated many sectors of economy and stoped state interventionism which was rebuild in rpevious decades

In the midwest because it has more moderate climate than the north or south west which makes farming far easier.