Dukakis 1988/Bush 2000 counties

[Sumner 1868]

Dukakis won every county in Rhode Island. Bush won every county in Maine, New Hampshire, Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming.

AL: Cherokee, Walker.

AK: N/A

AZ: Greenlee.

AR: Conway, Fulton.

CA: None.

CO: Bent, Conjes.

CT: None.

DE: None.

FL: None.

GA: Crawford, Greene, Marion, Pulaski.

HI: None.

ID: Clearwater, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone.

IL: Cass, Christian, Hancock, Jefferson, Jersey, Pike, Randolph, Saline, Vermillion, Williamson.

IN: Sullivan.

IA: Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audobun, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay,  Crawford, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Delaware, Emmett, Fayette, Franklin, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Iowa, Jasper, Keokuk, Kossuth, Lucas, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Monona, Monroe, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Sac, Story, Taylor, Union, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Winneshiek, Woodbury, Wright.

KS: Ellis.

KY: Bath, Carlisle, Carroll, Carter, Gallatin, Graves, Greenup, Henry, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, McLean, Magoffin, Marion, Marshall, Meinfee, Morgan, Owen, Robertson, Trimble, Union, Webster, Wolfe.

LA: Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Calcasieu, Cameron, De Soto, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Pointe Coupee, St. Martin, Vermillin, West Feliciana.

ME: None.

MD: None.

MA: None.

MI: Alger, Baraga, Delta, Keweenaw, Ontoagon, Schoolcraft.

MN: Anoka, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Chippewa, Chisago, Clay, Clearwater, Cook, Dakota, Grant, Isanti, Jackson, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Kittson, Koochiching, Mahomen, Marshall, Mille Lacs, Murray, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Pope, Red Lake, Renville, Stevens, Traverse, Washington, Yellow Medicine.

MS: None.

MO: Audrain, Chariton, Clark, Clinton, DeKalb, Dunklin, Gentry, Howard, Iron, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Marion, Mercer, Monroe, Nodaway, Oregon, Pemiscot, Pike, Ralls, Randolph, Reynolds, St. Francois, Shannon, Shelby, Worth.

MT: Blaine, Cascade, Hill, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula, Rosebud.

NE: Dakota, Saline, Thurston.

NV: None.

NH: None.

NJ: None.

NM: None.

NY: None.

NC: Caswell, Duplin, Greene, Haywood, Hyde, Jones, Swain.

ND: Benson, Divide, Mountrail, Nelson, Ransom, Sargent, Steele, Towner.

OH: Columbiana, Harrison.

OK: Bryan, Caddo, Coal, Cotton, Craig, Garvin, Greer, Harmon, Jefferson, Johnston, Kiowa, Love, McCurtain, Marshall, Mayes, Murray, Nowata, Okfuskee, Osage, Pittsburg, Pushmataha, Seminole, Tillman.

OR: Coos, Tillamook, Wasco.

PA: Armstrong, Clinton, Indiana, Westmoreland.

RI: None.

SC: None.

SD: Aurora, Brown, Brule, Charles Mix, Corson, Day, Lake, Marshall, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Roberts, Union, Ziebach.

TN: None.

TX: Bastrop, Baylor, Briscoe, Caldwell, Calhoun, Camp, Cass, Clay, Comanche, Concho, Cottle, Crosby, Delta, Dickens, Falls, Fannin, Fisher, Foard, Franklin, Galveston, Hall, Hardeman, Hardin, Haskell, Hudspeth, Jasper, Karnes, Kent, Kleberg, Knox, Lee, Limestone, McCulloch, Marion, Menard, Milam, Mitchell, Montague, Navarro, Nolan, Nueces, Orange, Rains, Red River, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, San Patricio, San Saba, Shelby, Stonewall, Swisher, Terrell, Throckmorton, Titus, Travis, Trinity, Tyler, Waller.

UT: Carbon.

VT: None.

VA: Lee, Tazewell, Wise.

WA: Asotin, Clark, Ferry*, Kittitas, Klickitat, Pend Oreille, Skamania, Wahkiakum, Whatcom.

WV: Barbour, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Greenbrier, Hancock, Marshall, Mason, Monongalia, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Wayne, Wetzel.

WI: Barron, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Forest, Iron, Kewaunee, Lincoln, Manitowoc, Marathon, Polk, Price, Racine, Rusk, St. Croix, Trempealeau, Washburn.

WY: None.

*Ferry County WA was actually was a tie between Dukakis and Bush Sr. at 972 votes each, but I'm counting it nonetheless.

[Asian Nazi]

The WA list is interesting.  I didn't know that Dukakis had picked up those rural counties.  Clark and Whatcom can easily be explained, though (the former due to suburban/exurban growth, the latter due to Nader).

[Sumner 1868]

The WA list is interesting.  I didn't know that Dukakis had picked up those rural counties.  Clark and Whatcom can easily be explained, though (the former due to suburban/exurban growth, the latter due to Nader).

Ferry and Pend Oreille leaned Democratic until about 2000, probably because of mining.

[Arbitrage1980]

The WA list is interesting.  I didn't know that Dukakis had picked up those rural counties.  Clark and Whatcom can easily be explained, though (the former due to suburban/exurban growth, the latter due to Nader).

Dukakis actually overperformed in rural areas because farmers got hit pretty hard economically during the Reagan presidency. It's why he won Iowa and West Virginia and did much better in Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, and Montana, than his overall national performance.

[Bismarck]

The WA list is interesting.  I didn't know that Dukakis had picked up those rural counties.  Clark and Whatcom can easily be explained, though (the former due to suburban/exurban growth, the latter due to Nader).

Dukakis actually overperformed in rural areas because farmers got hit pretty hard economically during the Reagan presidency. It's why he won Iowa and West Virginia and did much better in Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, and Montana, than his overall national performance.

You're right about the farm vote except in WV which has almost no large scale agriculture because it's all mountains.

[Mr. Smith]

The WA list is interesting.  I didn't know that Dukakis had picked up those rural counties.  Clark and Whatcom can easily be explained, though (the former due to suburban/exurban growth, the latter due to Nader).

Dukakis actually overperformed in rural areas because farmers got hit pretty hard economically during the Reagan presidency. It's why he won Iowa and West Virginia and did much better in Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, and Montana, than his overall national performance.

You're right about the farm vote except in WV which has almost no large scale agriculture because it's all mountains.

Lots of tobacco actually.

[DINGO Joe]

The WA list is interesting.  I didn't know that Dukakis had picked up those rural counties.  Clark and Whatcom can easily be explained, though (the former due to suburban/exurban growth, the latter due to Nader).

Dukakis actually overperformed in rural areas because farmers got hit pretty hard economically during the Reagan presidency. It's why he won Iowa and West Virginia and did much better in Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, and Montana, than his overall national performance.

You're right about the farm vote except in WV which has almost no large scale agriculture because it's all mountains.

Lots of tobacco actually.

No

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=WEST%20VIRGINIA

WV ranks 47 out of 50 states in value of crops and 40 out of 50 in livestock.  The biggest category by far is poultry and eggs which account for about half of all ag value.  They rank 17th out of 19 tobacco states and the value is withheld so as to not disclose data for individual operations.

Coal miners hated Reagan  because they lost tons of jobs.  WV lost 150,000 people in the 80s. 

[Sumner 1868]

The WA list is interesting.  I didn't know that Dukakis had picked up those rural counties.  Clark and Whatcom can easily be explained, though (the former due to suburban/exurban growth, the latter due to Nader).

Dukakis actually overperformed in rural areas because farmers got hit pretty hard economically during the Reagan presidency. It's why he won Iowa and West Virginia and did much better in Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, and Montana, than his overall national performance.

Actually, looking at Montana most of the Democratic vote share came from Dukakis winning the cities on the west side of the state and hitting 40% in Yellowstone County (Billings). Pretty similar to how the state was in 1992, 1996 and 2008.

[Hnv1]

why did he do so well in Iowa?

[VPH]

why did he do so well in Iowa?

Farm crisis turned normally Republican rural voters against Bush Sr. in 1988.