'Red state' Republican counties that became Democratic ones

[NOVA Green]

OREGON:

Benton and Washington County spring to mind immediately.

Both Yankee Republican strongholds since Oregon first became a State, which ended up flipping hard within the past 30 years.

Reagan in '84 won some pretty decisive margins in the wealthier North Corvallis precincts in Benton County, as well as doing pretty well in precincts along "Frat Row".

Washington County was something like 57-43 Bush Sr in '88 if my memory is correct, and that's well before the county had become overwhelmingly suburban.

The Reagan-Bush brand of Republicanism basically caused the death of the Republican Party in Oregon as a "Statewide Brand", and although their might be a couple Oregon avatars that want to resurrect the past days of glory, this is but a simple fact, regardless of the attempts to polarize the "Timber Wars" to create strategic advantage in "Downstate Oregon".