Why did Little River County, AR swung so hard to the Republicans in 2008?

[lfromnj]

I know a large segment of this forum likes to constantly spout the tiresome narrative of "racist uneducated southern hicks in the mountains and hills" without bringing forth any real evidence to justify it.

On the contrary, based off the data from Harvard's Project Implicit it appears that whites in West Virginia, Arkansas and Kentucky show about as much bias as whites in New York and Maryland and less than whites in Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. Now the methodology behind the creation of this map wasn't perfect, however, the results do seem rather sound and doesn't give credit to the widely held belief that whites in Appalachia and Arkansas are horribly racist people relative to the US as a whole.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/jaxt/blogposts/piblogpost005.html

Just wondering do you know what the IAT exam is? I personally don't find it very accurate except at a very reflex level. TBH most of it comes with upbringing. Most of the bias can be explained away by a simple correlation of % of black people in a state.

[lfromnj]

I wonder if Bush 41 did better in 1992 than in 1988 in any of the same areas where McCain did better than Bush 43.

I think there is one county in Iowa that swung R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_County,_Iowa#Politics

[lfromnj]

I wonder if Bush 41 did better in 1992 than in 1988 in any of the same areas where McCain did better than Bush 43.

I think there is one county in Iowa that swung R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_County,_Iowa#Politics

Funnily, it trended D in 2004 and 2012.

This pattern isn't uncommon; mostly WWC areas in the Midwest where Kerry overperformed, Obama did mediocre in 2008 but where voters were turned off by Romney's personality.

I think Trumbull in Ohio too, it really shows how awful of a candidate Mittens was where he does worse while not having the worlds biggest recession in history.

Oh yeah forgot a 2nd county, but this time its Southern

Jefferson county texas.