Westmoreland County, PA

[freepcrusher]

I looked up the electoral history of the place. I found out that the county has always been a republican one, with the exception of a period from 1932 to 1996 when it voted dem 16 out of 17 times. Is this county an example of the new deal coalition dying off?

[Ebowed]

You could say that it's the New Deal coalition dying off, but the raw numbers suggest a tangible amount of party switchers in the last two decades, which could be the result of a number of things (decreased union membership and influence, general switch from voting on economic to social concerns in western PA).