Voting records of 90% McCain counties in Texas

[Хahar 🤔]

Glasscock:

2008: McCain (90.1%)
2004: Bush (91.6%)
2000: Bush (92.5%)
1996: Dole (78.9%)
1992: Bush (66%)
1988: Bush (72.7%)
1984: Reagan (77.2%)
1980: Reagan (77.8%)
1976: Ford (52.8%)
1972: Nixon (78%)
1968: Wallace (38.5%)
1964: Goldwater (50.4%)
1960: Kennedy (56.6%)

King:

2008: McCain (92.6%)
2004: Bush (87.8%)
2000: Bush (87.6%)
1996: Dole (53.3%)
1992: Bush (41.8%)
1988: Bush (63.4%)
1984: Reagan (72.7%)
1980: Reagan (70.2%)
1976: Carter (50.8%)
1972: Nixon (65.3%)
1968: Humphrey (48.7%)
1964: Johnson (84.1%)
1960: Kennedy (76.9%)

Ochiltree:

2008: McCain (91.7%)
2004: Bush (90.9%)
2000: Bush (90.7%)
1996: Dole (79.2%)
1992: Bush (68.1%)
1988: Bush (83.3%)
1984: Reagan (89.1%)
1980: Reagan (81.9%)
1976: Ford (68.9%)
1972: Nixon (89.4%)
1968: Nixon (70.5%)
1964: Goldwater (66.3%)
1960: Nixon (78.1%)

Roberts:

2008: McCain (92.1%)
2004: Bush (92%)
2000: Bush (86%)
1996: Dole (72.1%)
1992: Bush (63.4%)
1988: Bush (75.9%)
1984: Reagan (83.6%)
1980: Reagan (75.1%)
1976: Ford (62.3%)
1972: Nixon (84.9%)
1968: Nixon (60.5%)
1964: Goldwater (60%)
1960: Nixon (76.2%)

What's interesting is how different they are. As far as I know, Ochiltree and Roberts are in the Panhandle, near the Oklahoma border, and are simply ultraconservative. I think Glasscock's vote can best be described as racist. King's is more interesting.

I know nothing about any of the counties. Does anyone else?

[Stranger in a strange land]

I think Glasscock's vote can best be described as racist.

Nah, Glasscock is in the panhandle and it's just EXTREMELY conservative, both economically and socially. It was Bush's best county in the entire country in 2000. Note that it actually trended slightly towards Obama, FWIW

[Smash255]

Very scary places.

[Rowan]

I wish I lived there.

[Smash255]

I wish I lived there.

You would be EXTREMELY lonely.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I wish I lived there.

You would be EXTREMELY lonely.

Unless of course he enjoys having inappropriate relationships with cows.

[RBH]

Hansford, Roberts, and Armstrong didn't hold a Democratic primary in 2008 due to not having a chairman or organization.

[Husker]

Glasscock County's slight swing toward democrats in the past 2 elections can probably be explained by an increase in Hispanic votes. This is west Texas, not the Panhandle (yes there is a difference) and oil is king. Midland County (just to its west) was very heavily GOP in the 60's and 70's, even when much of Texas was still democratic.

King County TX is a VERY sparsely populated county in a part of Texas and you'd be hard pressed to find many people under the age of 30 voting there. It seems that this is actually the 3rd least populous county in the U.S. The county is quite a ways from a major city and is rather poor so cultural isolation and fears of Obama being a Muslim were probably quite strong here.

Roberts County is also quite sparsely populated and Ochiltree County isn't exactly a booming metropolis either. Most places that are very heavily GOP (i.e, over 80%) are also quite sparsely populated, which tends to bring out a strong individualist, conservative attitude. Don't be too hard on folks there; they are generally very good people (even though I probably wouldn't bring up politics with most of them)

[Ebowed]

King County, probably unlike the others, is an area where the local Democratic party still maintains a monopoly on registrations.

P.S. - I wonder if there are many counties in Texas which switched from Dem to GOP from 1960 to 1964...

[Mechaman]

King County, probably unlike the others, is an area where the local Democratic party still maintains a monopoly on registrations.

P.S. - I wonder if there are many counties in Texas which switched from Dem to GOP from 1960 to 1964...

Not from what I have gathered. My grandmother, a lifelong Texas Republican (a Goldwateresque conservative, not the batsh*t insanes that have taken over the GOP) says that the GOP only started getting momentum during the late 60's and 70's. Let it be noted that in 1961 John Tower was the first Republican US Senator elected since the days of Reconstruction. Also, from 1961-1965 Texas only had two Republican US Representatives. This would've been around the time when the Texas Democratic Party Primary stopped being considered the unofficial election for whatever office candidates were running for.

[RBH]

Texas doesn't have partisan voter registration, but they will keep track of which primary you voted in.

Perhaps King County is a county where county officials didn't all randomly switch to the GOP. (the site has a long Texas list of clerks, constables, justices of the peace, and sheriffs from West Texas who switched: http://www.alamo-girl.com/0432.htm )

[Rob]

iirc, Ochiltree and Roberts have (or had) some oil and/or natural gas exploitation; Eisenhower broke 80 percent in these counties in 1952, when "local control" of those assets was a hot-button issue across the South. (They swung sharply to Stevenson in 1956, although they still returned Ike landslides, and then swung sharply toward Nixon, against the Papist Kennedy in 1960).

[DariusNJ]

King County is strange. Only 53% for Dole, to high 80's for George Bush, to 93% for McCain in a Dem year?

[Hash]

King County is strange. Only 53% for Dole, to high 80's for George Bush, to 93% for McCain in a Dem year?

1. Obama is a black
2. Perot 15.9%, Others 5.5%
3. There used to be, until 2000 or so, some Democratic areas in that area of TX. I don't know why, but there was.

[Хahar 🤔]

King County, probably unlike the others, is an area where the local Democratic party still maintains a monopoly on registrations.

P.S. - I wonder if there are many counties in Texas which switched from Dem to GOP from 1960 to 1964...

Glasscock is the only Kennedy-Goldwater county.

[RBH]

King County, probably unlike the others, is an area where the local Democratic party still maintains a monopoly on registrations.

P.S. - I wonder if there are many counties in Texas which switched from Dem to GOP from 1960 to 1964...

Glasscock is the only Kennedy-Goldwater county.

in Texas. But there's one in Missouri and one in Idaho

[minionofmidas]

3. There used to be, until 2000 or so, some Democratic areas in that area of TX. I don't know why, but there was.

Yeah, the area around the base of the panhandle, as it were, is sort of a sparsely (very sparsely) inhabited outcrop of East Texas in voting patterns.