Dem counties with substantial Republican pockets and vice versa

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

An interesting idea would be to look for the counties with the greatest range between their two most partisan precincts. Obviously the winner hands down is Brooklyn, which has some almost 100% Obama precincts and some almost 100% McCain/Romney precincts, and most of the next runners up would all be in the Deep South, but it'd be interesting to see the ones otherwise. St. Louis County is a great example of a really diverse politically county for one.

[jimrtex]

An interesting idea would be to look for the counties with the greatest range between their two most partisan precincts. Obviously the winner hands down is Brooklyn, which has some almost 100% Obama precincts and some almost 100% McCain/Romney precincts, and most of the next runners up would all be in the Deep South, but it'd be interesting to see the ones otherwise. St. Louis County is a great example of a really diverse politically county for one.

Harris County:

969: Obama 411 (98.6%), Romney 1 (0.2%), Undervote 5 (1.2%)

969: Sunnyside: Orem, MLK, Almeda-Genoa

1030: Romney 439 (87.1%), Obama 54 (10.7%), Johnson 7 (0.8%), Undervote 4 (0.8%)

1030: Spring: Kuykendahl, Gosling, Rayford, Willow Creek

266: Romney 526 (48.0%), Obama 526 (48.0%), Johnson 20 (1.8%), Stein 3 (0.3%), Undervote 20 (1.8%)

266: Channelview/Cloverleaf: East Freeway (I-10), Uvalde, Greens Bayou

[Calthrina950]

I'm reviving this thread, because I'm interested to see if there any new analyses, or comparisons, of counties and the respective partisan areas that they possess. I'll start with my home county, El Paso County, Colorado. Per the NYT detailed map of the 2020 election results, the urban core of Colorado Springs is Democratic, with the most heavily Democratic areas in Downtown, where Colorado College is located, and in parts of the Southeast Side, where most of the city's minority population lives. Manitou Springs is also solidly Democratic. Part of Fountain votes Democratic as well. The remainder of the county is Republican, with the rural areas being most heavily so.

[OBD]

In Oregon the best example of this in a reasonably sized county is Jackson County (Medford, SW Oregon). The county itself is lean R (Trump+4) but the southeastern corner (Ashland area, population ~35k) is hyper-Democratic - Ashland proper is actually the most Democratic town in the state. Looking on DRA, Ashland and the surrounding regions were a little over Biden +50, while the remaining part of the county is Trump +18, a 68-point difference!

The cheap option is Jefferson County (population 24k), a Trump+23 county that also includes most of the heavily-Democratic Warm Springs Reservation (population 3k, Biden+51 v. Trump+30 for the remainder of the county). Outside of these cases, I'd say Oregon's counties are relatively uniform politically, excluding the generic cases with liberal cities and conservative rurals (which cover Lane, Marion, and Deschutes Counties, among others).

[Bismarck]

Lake County, Indiana is a a long time democrat stronghold but the wealthier white suburban areas like St John and the rural areas in the south of the county are heavily Republican.

[thebeloitmoderate]

Technically both a county, and Borough of NYC, but Kings County (Brooklyn) is deep Blue, with the Mostly ADOS Population living in Bed-Stuy, and Brownsville, alongside with the White Hipster population living in Greenpoint, and Williamsburg, both used to be home of formerly big Polish populations but left due to white flight and gentrification, also the Mostly Caribbean Black neighborhoods of Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Canarsie, and the Mostly Hispanic neighborhood of Bushwick.
What prevents Brooklyn from being super Deep Blue however is South Brooklyn/plus the Hyper Red Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park.
South Brooklyn still has a sizable working class Italian American population alongside the ultra conservative Orthodox Jews, and former Soviet Immigrants that vote mostly Republican in presidential races.

[Tintrlvr]

For R with D pockets, almost any rural county containing a small college town, such as Allegany County, NY or Knox County, OH. The latter includes a Trump+78 precinct and a Biden+91 precinct.

Rockland County, NY has the same polarizations as Brooklyn, with a Trump+100 precinct (yes, really, 604-0 in one of the New Square precincts) and a Biden+93 precinct.

[Sol]

Something which isn't necessarily obvious about NC politically is that most of the larger highly Republican Piedmont counties have fairly sizable Democratic enclaves in their large towns.

This isn't too surprising when you look at racial demographics, but it's fairly interesting to note that places like Salisbury or Lexington actually have a lot of people and are pretty Democratic--which really underscores just how Republican and white rural and exurban parts of those counties are. This itself is kind of interesting given the typical demographic patterns in the rural south.

[Hope For A New Era]

yeah missouri doesn't do that

[Figueira]

Kind of a random one, but Hampden County, MA (centered on Springfield) is the only county in the state that has the urban/rural divide prevalent in the rest of the country.

[VPH]

Philadelphia has a not insubstantial swath of Republican neighborhoods centered on Martina White's State House district. There are also a few in S. Philly and some in the Riverwards.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambier,_Ohio

A very very blue college town in a deep red county.

[GregTheGreat657]

For R counties with D pockets: Richmond, NY, as the northern part of the county is solidly Democratic, while some of the southernmost areas voted more like rural white areas in the Deep South as opposed to a part of the largest city in the US

[sting in the rafters]

Philadelphia has a not insubstantial swath of Republican neighborhoods centered on Martina White's State House district. There are also a few in S. Philly and some in the Riverwards.

For R counties with D pockets: Richmond, NY, as the northern part of the county is solidly Democratic, while some of the southernmost areas voted more like rural white areas in the Deep South as opposed to a part of the largest city in the US

tfw my Bella Vista-native gf's dad's a cop and I can't use my usual de-escalatory tactics as he is an accursed Devils/Giants fan

[thebeloitmoderate]

Walworth County Wisconsin voted for Trump in 2016/20, heck even Delavan/Elkhorn with growing Hispanic populations voted for Trump.
But the only blue area of Walworth County is Whitewater home to UW Whitewater. It is not as deep hyper blue as Madison, or Dekalb which are notable college places nearby. Even Lake Geneva with former Chicago residents leans red.
I may have to do the reverse of this forum: Republican counties with substantial Democratic Pockets/Vice Verca

[CadetCashBoi]

I noticed on the NY Times electoral map from 2016 that there's a smattering of heavily Dem precincts around Bluefield, West Virginia which I think was once pointed out here is an area where black miners once settled.

[Tintrlvr]

I noticed on the NY Times electoral map from 2016 that there's a smattering of heavily Dem precincts around Bluefield, West Virginia which I think was once pointed out here is an area where black miners once settled.

The black population in Bluefield itself is right in the city center. You might be thinking of the area around Northfork and Keystone, though, which has a large black rural population. Northfork and Keystone towns are both majority black. That's over the border in McDowell County, though.

[If my soul was made of stone]

I noticed on the NY Times electoral map from 2016 that there's a smattering of heavily Dem precincts around Bluefield, West Virginia which I think was once pointed out here is an area where black miners once settled.

The black population in Bluefield itself is right in the city center. You might be thinking of the area around Northfork and Keystone, though, which has a large black rural population. Northfork and Keystone towns are both majority black. That's over the border in McDowell County, though.

While Bluefield State College (Bluefield) and West Virginia State University (Institute, in Kanawha County), the state's two HBCUs of note, are both overwhelmingly white these days, they're still in fairly Black environs (though shrinking), Institute being one of the most Dem parts of the state left and still Black-plurality. In some ways it's a microcosm of the whole state's relationship to its institutions, though of course compounded by its overwhelming whiteness and the lasting racism of some of those very institutions.

[Schiff for Senate]

Most counties with a deep blue urban centre and more divided to downright conservative suburbs, meet this definition. Examples: Tarrant County, TX; Harris County, TX; Kern County, CA; Ada County, ID - to name just a few.

[sting in the rafters]

This 25-second clip starting at 3:03 breaks the jawn down much more adequately than I could ever aspire to.

[If my soul was made of stone]

Worcester County, MD–these days mainly the evil watershed-destroying exurban resort backyard of the rest of the state–has a handful of rural Black enclaves in the environs of (but not in) Berlin and Snow Hill.

[RI]

A kind of interesting sizable deep red pocket surrounded by blue areas is Norco, CA.