Rural counties that vote Democrat/more Democrat than statewide?

[For Raza livin in La La/Like Gaza onto the dawn of Intifada]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any rural counties that tend to vote Democratic or at least vote more Democratic than the statewide count? This might be possible in places like MN or WA but I'm curious to see some of those more liberal rural counties.

Thanks in advance!

[Tekken_Guy]

The black belt.

[iceman]

The counties in western Colorado.
Iowa county, Wisconsin
The 3 blue counties in northwestern Wisconsin
Counties in Western Massachusetts
Silver Bow and Deer Lodge counties, Montana

[I need an explanation]

The black belt counties are the most obvious. Too many to list right here though.

A few in the Rio Grande Valley, like Jim Hogg, Zavala. Dimmit, and Brooks Texas.

A few of the rural counties in Vermont.

Not exactly counties, but some rural parts of Alaska.

Apache Arizona maybe?

Alpine and Mono California

Grand Utah (though it is more of a swing county)

Native American reservation counties like Oglala Lakota and Todd South Dakota, and Rolette and Sioux in North Dakota

Cook Minnesota (very similar to northwest Wisconsin)

Maybe a few on the Maine coast?

Glacier Montana

[Stranger in a strange land]

The Reservation counties in the Dakotas

[Skill and Chance]

The big one is rural Alaska. 

[prag_prog]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

[kwabbit]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

Carlton County, MN. Cook County, MN. Lake County, MN.
Douglas, Bayfield, and Ashland Counties, WI. Green, Iowa, and Sauk Counties, WI.
Berkshire County, MA.
Probably some of the MT counties.

This a dying breed of counties. Most of these in 2012 flipped to Trump, especially the Driftless counties in IA, WI, and IL.

[Roll Roons]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

Carlton County, MN. Cook County, MN. Lake County, MN.
Douglas, Bayfield, and Ashland Counties, WI. Green, Iowa, and Sauk Counties, WI.
Berkshire County, MA.
Probably some of the MT counties.

This a dying breed of counties. Most of these in 2012 flipped to Trump, especially the Driftless counties in IA, WI, and IL.

Also maybe a couple in VT?

[kwabbit]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

Carlton County, MN. Cook County, MN. Lake County, MN.
Douglas, Bayfield, and Ashland Counties, WI. Green, Iowa, and Sauk Counties, WI.
Berkshire County, MA.
Probably some of the MT counties.

This a dying breed of counties. Most of these in 2012 flipped to Trump, especially the Driftless counties in IA, WI, and IL.

Also maybe a couple in VT?

Yeah, Windham, Lamoille, Washington, Addison, Windsor in VT. This is assuming Chittenden gets counted as non-Rural lol.

Hampshire and Franklin County in MA as well. Grafton County in NH.

[Alcibiades]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

Carlton County, MN. Cook County, MN. Lake County, MN.
Douglas, Bayfield, and Ashland Counties, WI. Green, Iowa, and Sauk Counties, WI.
Berkshire County, MA.
Probably some of the MT counties.

This a dying breed of counties. Most of these in 2012 flipped to Trump, especially the Driftless counties in IA, WI, and IL.

Even of these, most have some other factor which make them much more Democratic than the average white rural county:

Cook, MN is touristy, more like Vermont than the rest of Minnesota in its social and political history. Same deal with Berkshire, MA, which also has a number of liberal arts colleges.

Green, Iowa and Sauk are all in the orbit of uber-liberal Madison, likewise Douglas is heavily influenced by Duluth.

I would say that the only remaining Democratic rural WWC counties are Bayfield and Ashland, WI, Carlton and Lake, MN, and Deer Lodge, MT.

[kwabbit]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

Carlton County, MN. Cook County, MN. Lake County, MN.
Douglas, Bayfield, and Ashland Counties, WI. Green, Iowa, and Sauk Counties, WI.
Berkshire County, MA.
Probably some of the MT counties.

This a dying breed of counties. Most of these in 2012 flipped to Trump, especially the Driftless counties in IA, WI, and IL.

Even of these, most have some other factor which make them much more Democratic than the average white rural county:

Cook, MN is touristy, more like Vermont than the rest of Minnesota in its social and political history. Same deal with Berkshire, MA, which also has a number of liberal arts colleges.

Green, Iowa and Sauk are all in the orbit of uber-liberal Madison, likewise Douglas is heavily influenced by Duluth.

I would say that the only remaining Democratic rural WWC counties are Bayfield and Ashland, WI, Carlton and Lake, MN, and Deer Lodge, MT.

A lot of Western Mass' Democratic strength is from the colleges, but there are a lot of working class towns that vote 70%+ Dem. There's a strong history of working class/union progressivism in that region.

[CentristRepublican]

The counties in western Colorado.
Iowa county, Wisconsin
The 3 blue counties in northwestern Wisconsin
Counties in Western Massachusetts
Silver Bow and Deer Lodge counties, Montana

Also the Iron Range in Minnesota - Cook, St. Louis, Carlton and Lake. Unsure if all 4 voted bluer than MN, but Cook definitely did. In fact, it gave Biden 65.6%, and a margin more than 10 points greater


As well as the Rio Grande Counties in TX (though some are urban) and black majority counties in AR, LA, TN (Haywood and Shelby), MS, AL, GA, FL, NC, SC, etcetra.

[CentristRepublican]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

Lake County, MN, was the whitest county in the nation to back Clinton. It did so by a margin of 2.2%, just to the left of MN as a whole. (In 2020, however, while it remained Democratic and expanded Biden's margin by 1.3%, it voted to the right of MN.)

[Telesquare]

It used to be this.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

In Tennessee, Haywood is still a Lean/Likely D county, and Hardeman votes to the left of the state as a whole, even if has gone from an Obama '12 county to a double digit Trump win.

[Roll Roons]

In Tennessee, Haywood is still a Lean/Likely D county, and Hardeman votes to the left of the state as a whole, even if has gone from an Obama '12 county to a double digit Trump win.

It's not really rural, but how likely it is that Williamson votes to the left of the state in 2024? It last did so in 1964, although 2020 was fairly close.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

In Tennessee, Haywood is still a Lean/Likely D county, and Hardeman votes to the left of the state as a whole, even if has gone from an Obama '12 county to a double digit Trump win.

It's not really rural, but how likely it is that Williamson votes to the left of the state in 2024? It last did so in 1964, although 2020 was fairly close.

If Trump is the nominee, pretty likely, but, if he isn't, I'd guess it wouldn't happen.

[CentristRepublican]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

Lake County, MN, was the whitest county in the nation to back Clinton. It did so by a margin of 2.2%, just to the left of MN as a whole. (In 2020, however, while it remained Democratic and expanded Biden's margin by 1.3%, it voted to the right of MN.)

Also, neighbouring Cook County (not quite as white as Lake, though still very white), voted more than 20 points to the left of your state as a whole in 2020.

[Interlocutor]

Would like to know about Rural Countes that are >75% White and vote to the left of the state.

Mendocino County, CA is around 80% white and votes 6-10% to the left of California (15-20% pre-2016).

The only exception was 2016 which saw a lot of Democrats opting to vote 3rd Party instead of Hillary.