Are there any counties that voted accordingly?
Edgefield, South Carolina and Lincoln, Tennessee at the very least it seems. But that can probably be attributed to Perot.
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Or ancestral Democrats dying off. Or maybe there were some that gave the benefit of the doubt to Mondale because he had been Carter's VP, but were too far gone to the Rs by '96.
[/quote]Certainly nothing to do with Perot. It was substantially ancestral Democrats disappearing with the Republican Revolution of 1994. Although the rapid shift of ancestral Democrats really took off in 2000, there were traces of it in 1996, when Clinton lost many of these counties in Kentucky. Despite unusually good performances for a Democrat in the old Unionist GOP bastions — getting 37 percent in Owsley County, 52 percent in Tyler County, West Virginia and carrying Martin County — Clinton only won Kentucky by less than one percent. Other states of the nonplantation South — Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia — showed similar if less marked trends following on from the Republican Revolution.
