SANTA MONICA, Calif. -

Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Donald Trump or Ted Cruz? These folks may be the current polling frontrunners in the state of Iowa, which was set to hold its caucuses Monday night, but the state’s frontrunners in the new automotive space are a bit clearer: They tend to buy American.

A recent analysis of 2015 new-car registration data by Edmunds.com shows that 63 percent of Iowa’s purchases last year were from domestic brands. That’s a hefty portion of the state, especially considering domestic new-vehicle purchases accounted for roughly 42 percent of those purchased throughout the entire United States last year.

This may also have a lot to do with the fact that 24 percent of those purchases made in the farming-heavy state last year were pickup trucks (compared to 15 percent nationally), a segment heavily dominated by domestic manufacturers. Add SUVs to the trucks, and you’ll see that those two segments combined accounted for 63 percent of all new-vehicle registrations in Iowa last year, compared to 52 percent nationally.

That blue-collar theme appears to repeat itself when looking at the luxury versus non-luxury spread in Iowa, where only 5 percent of the vehicles registered in the state last year fall into the luxury category, compared to the industry average of 13 percent nationwide.

The fact that flex-fuel vehicles, equipped with engines that can handle fuel with higher ratios of ethanol, make up 16 percent of Iowa’s new purchases last year is probably not a surprise to the state’s residents considering half of all of the state’s corn is used to produce ethanol. That’s a substantial increase over the national average of 11 percent.

And although Iowa may be considered a “blue” state in the political sense in recent years, with President Barack Obama winning the state in the last two elections, in a car-color sense, red beats out blue in Iowa, with 14.1 percent of the vehicles registered in the state last year being red (compared to 9.4 percent blue). Red was by no means the most-popular color, however (it was fourth); white, black and silver were the most-registered colors in the state, respectively.