Perry County, Indiana

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It might not be able to pick up an over-the-air TV signal.

In other words, they're not brainwashed by the yapping media.

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I don't know if Owensboro has any stations of its own. They watch Evansville stations there.

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The towers might be right between Evansville and Owensboro. But Tell City is on low-lying land, and probably has a hard time picking up any stations in the digital era.

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Pretty sure Dubois County is full of conservative Catholics. I thought I heard this years ago. I think they had some very conservative boarding school or something.

It's like some of the areas around Cincinnati.

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Bump (Since I unintentionally started a new thread on the same topic just now).

So it seems Perry County's continuing Democratic tradition compared to it's neighbors relies much on the following:

Low Catholic pop compared to neighbors. (If anyone wants to see the effect abortion and other social issues had on the voting habits of previously Democratic German-Catholics, see Mercer County, Ohio).

Low influx of population which reduces the change in traditional practices (though I'm not sure why this wouldn't also apply much to Perry's equally isolated off the beaten path neighbors....)

High manufacturing employment and lower college education levels, leaving a largely blue collar union-friendly workforce light on Republican-friendly white collar types. I suspect the prison there Jim mentioned also employs a disproportionate share of the locals in union jobs.

And....? That certainly helps explain things in part. But I'm still having trouble seeing how these factors alone would be enough to create the whopping 10-20 point voting gap between Perry and it's nearby neighbors.

Another theory is that TV and talk radio reception are very poor.