How did Hinds county Mississippi stay republican for so long?

[Urbanbluedog]

The county was probably whiter then, but not by much.

[Bernie Derangement Syndrome Haver]

Jim Crow

[DINGO Joe]

Actually it was quite a bit whiter at one point.

[7,052,770]

A lot of the white population stuck around after the first wave of White Flight and then fled to the suburbs (mostly south Madison County) in the late 80s/early 90s.

[DINGO Joe]

A lot of the white population stuck around after the first wave of White Flight and then fled to the suburbs (mostly south Madison County) in the late 80s/early 90s.

I was always under the impression that whites moved to Rankin first and moving into Madison was a more recent thing.

[TML]

Also remember that in the Deep South, during the second half of the 20th century, suburban whites were more Republican than rural whites, which would explain Ford winning places like Hinds in MS and Jefferson & Montgomery in AL against Carter.

[Del Tachi]

The City of Jackson had a White mayor until 1997, surprisingly.

Jackson was one of the last cities in the Deep South to be hit by White Flight

[Del Tachi]

Another point, it was also the case during the 1980s and 1990s that the Delta was losing a lot of Black population to urban centers like Memphis and Jackson (Shelby County, TN was also a Bush '88 county, like Hinds.)  A lot of new Black voters were moving into Hinds County (especially parts of South Jackson) and pushing White families into Madison/Rankin.

[One Term Floridian]

Oh it’s definitely white flight. Deep South gonna Deep South