Why is Abbeville, SC Republican at presidential level, but Democratic local level?

[Adam Griffin]

How much more Abbeville voted to the right of the state:

2006-G: -17.0
2008-P: 6.1
2010-G: -10.6
2012-P: 2.9
2014-G: 6.3
2016-P: 13.8
2018-G: 19.3
2020-P: 21.4

It's not Democratic anymore: it's a standard predominantly-white, rural, previously-loyal Dixiecratic county that was willing to elect homegrown Ds more so than national Ds, and that is following the same patterns as hundreds of other counties have throughout the South. Next.