Badlands and Black Hills

Bartlet lists the Badlands and Black Hills among regions he carried in the election tally, invoking South Dakota's stark eroded canyons of layered rock and the pine-forested granite peaks rising nearby. Winds carve the Badlands' jagged spires under vast skies, while the Black Hills shelter dense woods and granite outcrops, their remote expanse signaling heartland loyalty in the midnight bedroom count.