monroe county indiana...what happened?

[minionofmidas]

All the big college towns had similar trends. No matter where. Look at Austin. Look at Missoula. Of course, the levels the parties started from differ.

[minionofmidas]

Where does Nevada have its state uni? Nebraska? Wyoming?

[minionofmidas]

The college areas in Fairbanks and Anchorage were close to fifty-fifty splits. The House Districts they're in both went for Bush by small margins.
While anywhere else in and around Fairbanks is very conservative.

[minionofmidas]

And Nebraska and Wyoming have their state universities in Lincoln

Lancaster County.

IIRC it was McGovern's best county in the state - might be confusing him with one of the other Dems to be landslided out of Nebraska in the last forty years though.

[minionofmidas]

IIRC it was McGovern's best county in the state

He was stronger in several rural counties with Democratic traditions- he polled 44 percent in Butler, where Kerry received 26 percent. Lancaster follows the classic university pattern in other ways, though, as it was the best county for Anderson and Nader.

Maybe it was Mondale then.

[minionofmidas]

It was Carter in 1980.

Despite also being Anderson's best. Impressive. They probably knew Reagan pretty well.