Nueces County, TX

[Bandit3 the Worker]

How is it that a county that has a big city the size of Corpus Christi can vote for Dukakis in 1988 but Romney in 2012??? What happened here???

[HAnnA MArin County]

It's Texas.

[ElectionsGuy]

Guys how does Cottle County, TX go from 64-35 Dukakis to 75-24 Romney? I just don't get it, how can any portion of the country anywhere get more Republican?

/Bandit3 the Worker

[RINO Tom]

You seem to be under the impression that a county with a large population can't vote Republican ... needless to say, that's not true at all.  Look no further than your own state where several populated suburban counties voted way to the right of "rural romp" (isn't that the way you so charmingly described the current GOP?) Eliot County.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Guys how does Cottle County, TX go from 64-35 Dukakis to 75-24 Romney? I just don't get it, how can any portion of the country anywhere get more Republican?

Cottle County is rural. Nueces County is urban.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

You seem to be under the impression that a county with a large population can't vote Republican ... needless to say, that's not true at all.  Look no further than your own state where several populated suburban counties voted way to the right of "rural romp" (isn't that the way you so charmingly described the current GOP?) Eliot County.

Those are suburban, not urban. Counties in Kentucky that have a city the size of Corpus Christi have gotten more Democratic since 1988.

[RI]

Corpus Christi is not that big or urban. It's smaller than Bakersfield or Anaheim or Wichita or Tulsa or Virginia Beach or Colorado Springs or Jacksonville, all of which reside in mostly Republican counties.

Economically, CC is mostly an oil and ag city with a military presence. That should tell you enough by itself.

[Xing]

Not only is Nueces county more than just Corpus Christi, but Corpus Christi also extends into other counties.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Maricopa county. It is basically Phionex/Scottsdale/Tempe/All those different metropolitan areas that really should be counted as a single city(here in Tucson we just call it all Phionex).


It went for Romney by ten points. Making that more inconvenient is the fact that it's also literally 2/3rds of the state(population 4 mil out of 6.5 mil for the state as a whole).