Describe the likely political history of the previous hypothetical county

[GregTheGreat657]

Pershing County would be safely Democratic, due to the strong influence of Wilhelmsburg, the county's progressive tradition, and Wisconsin rurals being somewhat redder than those elsewhere in the Rust Belt. It would have given Biden over 75% of the vote, and would have last went Republican in 1956. However, due to Amish population growth and the Dems having already reached their extremely high ceiling in Wilhelmsburg, the county would have had a noticable trend towards Romney in 2012, a trend narrowly in Trump's favour in 2016 — blamed by some on HRC's unpopularity with diehard progressives who favoured Sanders, by others on general trends across the Rust Belt and rural growth — and a trend only narrowly in Biden's favour in 2020. Most psephologists expect further growth in Wilhelmsburg, like is happening in college towns across the nation, and the aformentioned Amish growth to balance each other out and keep the county's politics stagnant at between 70D/30R and 75D/25R for the forseeable future.

Name — Slakasin County
State — Illinois
Location — Downstate, not too far from Springfield and Peoria
Population — 110,251
County Seat and Largest City — Yongeton (pop. 80,440)
Geography — The county is centered on Yongeton, which contains almost three quarters of its population. The rest of the county is predominately rural, with no other cities or towns with more than five thousand residents.
Demographics — 71% White (predominately German and Scotch-Irish), 16% Black, 9% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% Other
Demographic notes — Yongeton is roughly 60% white and is home to the bulk of the county's non-white population, and mostly skews lower middle class. The rural areas are >85% white and poorer.
MHI — $38,000
Economy — Retail, manufacturing, agriculture
History — Slakasin County was created in the late 19th century out of several other rural counties. It was named by a prominent local farmer, James Danielson, who claimed it was derived from a word in the Miami-Illinois language meaning 'tree stump'; however, most historians believe that, similar to some of the counties in Michigan named by Henry Schoolcraft, Danielson invented the name himself and that it has no actual meaning. The county remained overwhelmingly rural until the late 1940s, when the United States Army constructed and began operations at Fort Devers, a large base adjacent to the then-small Yongeton. In addition to the usual functions of an army base, such as housing and training soldiers, Fort Devers was also the site of tests throughout the 1950s and 1960s related to using opiates and alkaloids on unaware soldiers in an attempt to enhance their awareness and general performance. These tests became public knowledge in the early 1990s. Fort Devers was shut down in the 1995 BRAC and more than ninety percent of its structures were dismantled and moved elsewhere, with the official reasoning being that there were issues with the soil underneath the base starting to liquefy and sink its structures up to three feet into the ground, along with it being one of the less important army bases in the nation. However, conspiracy theories exist surrounding the base being shut down to cover up further human experimentation carried out on its premises. The dismantling of Fort Devers left behind Yongeton, a military town with 85000 residents at the time of the 1990 census that sprung up around it. While it initially experienced mild population decline and a lack of opportunities, in the 2000s and 2010s, Yongeton transitioned to a retail-driven economy, with many of its arms factories soon replaced by civilian ones, and became an exurb of Springfield; the 2020 census marked the first time in four decades that Slakasin County experienced population growth, some of which was attributed to Illinois government employees moving there due to its proximity to the state's capital. Today, Slakasin County is seen as an example of a military town that was able to successfully move on to a civilian-driven economy, even though many speculate that it will eventually either experience population decline once again due to its lack of a strong non-retail economy of its own and many of its factories facing stiff overseas competition, or be fully integrated into Springfield's metropolitan area and lose its own distinct identity in the process.
Other notes — Slakasin County has been experiencing a slight boost in tourism, especially with young adults, in recent years, due to conspiracy theories surrounding Fort Devers' past and a fictionalized version of Yongeton being utilized as the setting of the extremely popular horror fiction podcast We Hide In The Stalks. However, tourism is still only a small fraction of the county's economy. | Slakasin County was the site of an EF-5 tornado in 1969, passing directly through the core of Devon (at the time, the only other notable town in the county besides Yongeton), which still hasn't recovered from the damage wrought by the 'Great Slakasin Tornado' fifty-three years later. | One notable neighbourhood of Yongeton is Albert Park, a retirement community of nearly eight thousand, developed in the early 2000s on a portion of the recently emptied land that was once Fort Devers, that advertises itself to pensioners from urban and inner suburban areas of cities like Chicago, Saint Louis, and Indianapolis who want to spend the rest of their life in a quieter, more rural area; many of Yongeton's ethnic white, Black, and Hispanic residents are Albert Park retirees.

Ancestrally Republican area that has become a swing county in recent years, narrowly voting for Biden in 2020, after narrowly voting for Trump in 2016. It voted for Obama twice, and every Republican before that outside of D landslides

Name: Sierra County (renamed in 2020 from Dixie County as a ballot referendum)
State: A fictional state in Rocky Mountains/Southwest area
Population over time:
1850 397
1860 506
1870 1,455
1880 2,131
1890 3,755
1900 5,166
1910 9,344
1920 11,155
1930 17,185
1940 24,441
1950 50,113
1960 77,224
1970 118,013
1980 155,224
1990 188,085
2000 231,386
2010 264,448
2020 273,610
2021 est. 273,054
Density (based off 2021 est.): 357.5/sq. mi
Demographics: 51% White, 34% Hispanic, 2% Black, 11% Asian, 2% Native American
Largest Religion (current): Catholicism (Mormons are roughly 10% of the population)
Church attendance rates: Somewhat above average
MHI: Slightly above the national average
Bachelor's+ rate: Slightly above the national average

Geography: The county's northern third is dense suburbs, with the middle third being exurbs, and the southern third being rural. The main city has a population of roughly 550,000. It's county has a population of roughly 1.2 million. The southern third is home to a decently sized Lake Navajo (previously known as Lake Antebellum). The edges of the county that don't border the main city (Cortez) of its metro or the suburbs of the said city have a terrain consisting of rolling hills.

History: Was first settled by Mormons, although many Confederate veterans and their families moved here after the Union won the Civil War. These groups did not exactly get along during the early years of the county, and they wound up living on separate sides of the county, with Mormon families living in the north and Confederate veterans and their families living in the south. The county's population steadily grew as more people moved westward in the early 1900s. With the rapid growth of Cortez in nearby Blio County in the post-war era, Sierra County experienced explosive growth. This growth almost went completely to the northern half of the county. That growth has slowed in recent years, but the county is still growing.

[Sol]

The fact that the renaming referendum was successful is indicative, I think. All R until flipping in 2020 imo.

Name: San Patricio (independent city)
Location: Southwest, outer suburbs and exurbs of a San Diego-esque metro in size, demographics, and economics.
Population: 120,000
Demographics: 66% White (mostly WASPy and German in ancestry), 21% Latino (overwhelmingly Mexican-American), 11% Asian (predominantly Chinese and Filipino, with the Chinese community skewing towards Cold War-era immigrants).
Median Household Income: $70,000
Economy: Some construction and white collar services, with a smallish edge city in San Patricio Towne Center. Most residents commute, however, with many of the residents working for naval contractors, aerospace, and in research and development.
Notes: Affluent white flight suburbia which has seen quick growth, particularly from middle-class Mexican-Americans as the metro area diversifies. The city is infamous for its particularly garish faux-Tuscan McMansions, though since 2000s it's no longer the outer fringe of suburban development. Most city services have been privatized.