White, conservative, rural
Mine:
D/R/I
1952: 58/40
1956: 54/45
1960: 64/31
1964: 52/46
1968: 47/41/11
1972: 38/57
1976: 64/32
1980: 55/44
1984: 43/56
1988: 53/45
1992: 49/35/15
1996: 45/42/8
2000: 45/50/2
2004: 43/53
2008: 48/49
2012: 49/47
2016: 46/49
2020: 48/50
Bonus: how will it vote in 2024 and 2028?
This is such a boring and uninspired answer that I had to step in and at least try to give a better one.
To the original post:
This a upper Southern county in lower Indiana. It voted Dem up until Bryan out of Civil War memories, but swung right in 1896 because of its growing industry and concerns over Bryan's radicalism. It voted against Cox in 1920 because of opposition to the Versailles Treaty, but swung back D in 1924, perhaps because of Davis's nearby West Virginia ties. It then supports Roosevelt in 1932, but swings to the right during his Presidency due to its Midwestern isolationism. It then swings back to Truman in 1948 over concerns that Republicans will eliminate New Deal Programs + continuing ancestral D legacy only temporarily broken by Bryanite radicalism/Wilsonian and Rooseveltian interventionism. In 1968, it has a strong Wallace showing due to its Southernishness, and for that same reason votes for Carter in 1976 and 1980. However, generational change and growing conservatism reduces the power of ancestral D loyalties, causing this county to vote Republican in 1984 and 1988. It swings back for Southerner Bill Clinton, but rockets right with Clinton out of office, voting for every Republican candidate since 1996 by increasing margins, with the exception of a small swing to Obama in 2008 (a real Indiana county would probably have seen a bigger Obama swing, so maybe this county is just across the border in Kentucky, but Indiana is overall the best fit.)
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