ancestral dem counties

[Bidenworth2020]

Houston County, TN
Eliott County, KY
McDowell County, WV
Logan County, WV
Robertson County, TX
Newton County, TX
Morris County, TX
Franklin County, FL
Jackson County, AL
Colbert County, AL
Lawrence County, AL
Benton County, MS
Mineral County, NV
Cowlitz County, WA
Sheridan County, MT
Okmulgee County, OK
Cherokee County, OK
Crawford County, KS
Day County, SD
Roberts County, SD
(Like 20 counties in Iowa I don't wanna list )
Iron County, MO
Jefferson County, MO
St. Genevieve County, MO
Pemiscot County, MO
Alexander County, IL
Gallatin County, IL
Henderson County, IL
Madison County, IL
Calhoun County, IL
Perry County, IN
Jefferson County, OH
Monroe County, OH
Belmont County, OH
Fayette County, PA
Washington County, PA
Greene County, OH
Beaver County, PA
Lawrence County, PA
Mercer County, PA
Erie County, PA
Cambria County, PA
Carbon County, PA
Salem County, NJ
Sullivan County, NY
Niagara County, NY
Cayuga County, NY
St. Lawrence County, NY
Franklin County, NY
Coos County, NH
Essex County, VT
Windham County, CT
Aroostook County, ME
Somerset County, ME
Penobscot County, ME
Androscoggin County, ME


still a few more... ill do it later

[SingingAnalyst]

Jackson County in north-central Tennessee voted Dem in every election from 1912 through 2008 except one (1920, when it split 52-48 for Harding over Cox). It even voted for Smith, Humphrey, and McGovern.

In 2008, Obama hung on by less than 1 percentage point. In 2012, Romney won 57.0 - 41.6 and, in what is becoming a familiar pattern, in 2016 Trump won 72.5 -25.3.

Looking further back, Madison County in west Tennessee voted Dem in every election from 1912 through 1956 (it gave Smith 65.4%), and Republican in every election from 1960 to the present except 1968 (Wallace) and 1976 (Carter). (Clinton, however, managed a respectable 40.5% in the county in 2016).

[Sumner 1868]

A lot of these are mining counties - and not just coal.

[PragmaticPopulist]

I wouldn't call Essex County, VT an ancestral Dem County. Before 1992, it only voted for Democrats in national landslides (in this case, 1940, 1944, and 1964).

[VPH]

A lot of these are mining counties - and not just coal.

Extractive industries were often unionized, but that has since faded and they remain socially more conservative and realign. Democrats supporting strict environmental regulations exacerbates this shift too. Counties with any sort of major mining or even lumber/pulp/paper presence tended to swing towards Trump.

[Joe McCarthy Was Right]

I disagree with some of these. Some of these counties like Cayuga County NY, Sullivan County NY, Essex County VT, Penobscot County ME, St Lawrence County NY have voted Republican more often than they've voted Democrat since the New Deal. Carroll County IA and Mingo County WV come to mind before any of those 5.