Piscataquis county, ME

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Only county in all of New England to vote for McCain.

[Aizen]

Joke county

[memphis]

It's also one of the least populous counties in NE. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[Ronnie]

I know; I thought that at least Belknap, NH would go for McCain as well.

[Alcon]

It's pretty funny watching cultural voting patterns conflict in potato country - Northeast vs., well, potato country.

1988: Bush +18
1992: Perot +4
1996: Clinton +17
2000: Bush +12
2004: Bush +9
2008: McCain +4

Now there's a country that's not entirely sure of where it wants to go.

[the506]

Aroostook is potato country.

Piscataquis is just plain old redneck country....I don't think their largest town even has 4000 people.

[Alcon]

Aroostook is potato country.

Piscataquis is just plain old redneck country....I don't think their largest town even has 4000 people.

bah, yeah.  You're right.  Still different cultural forces pulling in different directions, though.

(Welcome)

[Jordan Gwendolyn]

Well, the thing about Piscataquis is that, true, it is rural Maine, but it is in the centre of rural Maine. Go a little North and you get French-Canadians as a mitigating factor, go east, and you get Anglo-Canadians as a mitigating factor, go South and you have the Bangor areas as a mitigating factor. Go west, and you will have New Hampshire bleedover as a mitigating factor.

Basically, Piscataquis County tends to have very little tourism, is predominantly Anglo, and is resource based.

[Bo]

It's pretty funny watching cultural voting patterns conflict in potato country - Northeast vs., well, potato country.

1988: Bush +18
1992: Perot +4
1996: Clinton +17
2000: Bush +12
2004: Bush +9
2008: McCain +4

Now there's a country that's not entirely sure of where it wants to go.

No. That's a typically Republican county who hates Midwesterners.

[homelycooking]

Piscataquis is just plain old redneck country....I don't think their largest town even has 4000 people.

Dover-Foxcroft, the county seat, has 4211 residents. What's even more amusing about Piscataquis is the fact that the northern two-thirds of the county, an area twice as large as Rhode Island, is home to 506 people.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Washington ME, Belknap and Rockingham NH were very close.

[Kevinstat]

Well, the thing about Piscataquis is that, true, it is rural Maine, but it is in the centre of rural Maine. Go a little North and you get French-Canadians as a mitigating factor, go east, and you get Anglo-Canadians (?) and French-Canadians in the Millinocket area as a mitigating factor, go South and you have the Bangor areas as a mitigating factor. Go west or southwest into rural Somerset County, and you will have New Hampshire bleedover "green" sentiments (and I'm not talking about Ralph Nader ) as a mitigating factor.

Corrected (in my opinion)

The one solidly Democratic town in Piscataquis County is Wellington (Obama won it 66.42% to 32.85% in 2008), the most southwestern town in the county, which was settled by "back to the landers" in the 1970s I believe.  I'm sure there are "green" sentiments there as well, probably moreso than the "green" towns in Somerset County I'm thinking of which are less Democratic (I think one, Athens, may often vote Republican, although the "green" community I've heard of is West Athens (part of the town) which may vote very differently from the town as a whole, although we'd never know because there's only 1 precinct in the town).