Is Franklin County, NY racist?

[Kizzuwanda]

Franklin County, New York is poor, white and traditionally strongly Republican, but started voting for the Democrats in the 1990s, exactly as the Democrats were becoming more associated with cultural and racial liberalism. It's support for Democrats peaked with Obama, and in 2012, when Obama was a more racially polarizing figure than in 2008, he actually improved his margin here. However in 2016 it voted for Trump and as we all know, anyone who votes for Trump is part of the literal KKK. Do you think this county is racist or not?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

A large portion of voters in the county are objectively willing to put up with racism to a certain extent. I'm not going to give the rest of your disengenuous question a simple yes or no.

[Intell]

They shifted to democrats as did a lot of the north east due to cultural identity. The Republican Party shifted away from it's roots as moderate, north-east secular party to a evagelical party and they shifted to the democrats as a result.

The sift to Trump was a result of it's working class political identity, plus Trump being disassociated with a normal republican and being more "moderate" on abortion, religion and economics.

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

Franklin County was pretty liberal up until 1968 as it voted solidly Republican (the more liberal party before the 1964 platform switch) and then in 1964 when it went for LBJ. Somewhere between 1964 and 1968 there was a large migration of racist hick Dixiecrats who took over the county which is why it ended up voting Republican until the 90s. These hicks were so racist, stupid and uneducated that hearing Bubba on the radio hyped them up and caused them to vote democrat, even for Obama because the hicks are so poor they don't have a TV, that was until 2016 when they heard about Trump and the Alt Right which swung them over to the Republicans.

Long story short... yes. They are despicable, racist, deplorables and also sexists based off the 2016 results.

[Politician]

Yes. All Obama-Trump voters are racist.

[Gracile]

No county is inherently racist.

[Goldwater]

Franklin County was pretty liberal up until 1968 as it voted solidly Republican (the more liberal party before the 1964 platform switch) and then in 1964 when it went for LBJ. Somewhere between 1964 and 1968 there was a large migration of racist hick Dixiecrats who took over the county which is why it ended up voting Republican until the 90s. These hicks were so racist, stupid and uneducated that hearing Bubba on the radio hyped them up and caused them to vote democrat, even for Obama because the hicks are so poor they don't have a TV, that was until 2016 when they heard about Trump and the Alt Right which swung them over to the Republicans.

Long story short... yes. They are despicable, racist, deplorables and also sexists based off the 2016 results.

TBH, I didn't realize this was sarcastic until the part about them not having TV.

[RINO Tom]

ITT: I learned the GOP used to be secular!!

[NOVA Green]

Although I don't believe that I have Anti-Racist radar when it comes to various counties, let alone the alleged correlation between Trump voters and Racists, there are a few items worthy of note....

Franklin County's 2nd largest employer is the Clinton Correctional Facility, which is the largest Maximum Security Prison in New York State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Correctional_Facility

Franklin County is also a place which is roughly 50% French-Canadian / French in terms of self-reported Ancestry.

So maybe one could make the argument that prison guards at Maximum security Union Prisons tend to gravitate towards a "law and order candidate", in a prison that has some the "worst of the worst" when it it comes to Felony convictions.... we are not talking about a prison where a ton of White, Black, and Latino folks are incarcerated for selling small quantities of Weed, Cocaine, or Heroine on the corner.

Additionally, Bill Clinton's Law and Order message might have resonated within the community as part of his crime bill, and essentially supporting both Union Workers at prisons, combined with bans on semi-automatics, as well as generally being pro-cop / pro-union etc and securing the pipeline of inmates to the prison.

We can look at the French -Canadian population of the region, essentially overwhelmingly Catholic, but also historically persecuted by the Protestant population of the region....

There was a massive uprising in the Quebec Region of Canada, inspired by the American Civil Rights Movement, that inspired major mass demonstrations, as well as more militant political formations later on....

Regardless, I find your hypothesis that Franklin County voting patterns are motivated by racist sentiments, simply because they swung towards Trump to neglect a much more complicated social-political-economic history of the region....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Valli%C3%A8res