highest popular vote % since 1964 by county by party

[nclib]

Awesome. Great work.

I can't tell apart the 1988 and 2004 counties on the Rep map--please give the state/region for each.

Guesses at unusual results:

1968 - Nixon - unsure
1976 - Ford - home area in Mich.
1980 - Carter - southern counties that swung slightly Carter in 1980
1988 - Dukakis - Bentsen in TX, economics, poverty in 1980s
1988 - Bush - suburbs?
1992 - Clinton - Gore VP in TN
1996 - Clinton - home state of AR, targeted LA and AZ
2000 - Gore - Jewish and urban in South Fla.
2000 - Bush - anti-gun control
2004 - Bush - non-Southern evangelicals (as LVP said)

[nclib]

LVP (or anyone) can you explain the color distinction between the 1988 and 2004 counties on the GOP map?

[nclib]

Trying to figure out the 1968 R counties, many of which are pretty liberal. Perhaps they got more Democratic after 18-20 year-olds got the right to vote?

[nclib]

Trying to figure out the 1968 R counties, many of which are pretty liberal. Perhaps they got more Democratic after 18-20 year-olds got the right to vote?

Humphrey was HATED by certain elements of the left.

Which elements? I know anti-war was part of it. Did those people not vote or vote for Nixon? Makes sense that 15/21 of the 1968 R counties voted for Obama in 2012 and included universities as: UC-Santa Cruz, U. of Colo., U. Of Iowa, U. of Oregon, Oregon St., as well as Native Am. Shannon, SD and several Hispanic counties in NM.