Rhode Island has only 3 counties. What is more impressive is that none of South Carolinas (many) counties voted republican for 11 straight elections back in the early 20th century
South Carolina was the D.C. of the late 19th and early 20th Century. The Democratic Party was simply the party that the voters voted for. A good example is that South Carolinians really didn't like Woodrow Wilson in 1912. The South Carolinian delegates voted for Champ Clark at the Convention in Baltimore on all 16 ballots cast. Yet they all voted for him due to the (D) by his name.
