Holmes County, Ohio

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I came across this county via NY Times electoral explorer. Not only is it very Republican (69% McCain), but I also noticed the VERY low education rates (51.5% H.S., 8.3% coll.). I'm guessing there is some obscure religious denomination here, anyone know?

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30% Amish.

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Doesn't Lancaster, PA have a high Amish population and it swung heavily to the Dems (though McCain still won it).

30% Amish.

That would imply the education rates for Holmes' non-Amish population would still be very low.

[memphis]

Once you subtract the Amish, the education numbers aren't all that bad for a rural area.

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Doesn't Lancaster, PA have a high Amish population and it swung heavily to the Dems (though McCain still won it).

30% Amish.

That would imply the education rates for Holmes' non-Amish population would still be very low.

Lancaster has a high amish population but Lancaster is largely urban county in which the amount of amish is maybe 15-20k and 50k for all plain people which includes Mennonites and is about 10% of the population of Lancaster county which has around 500k people according to some article i read.

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Doesn't Lancaster, PA have a high Amish population and it swung heavily to the Dems (though McCain still won it).

30% Amish.

That would imply the education rates for Holmes' non-Amish population would still be very low.

Lancaster is becoming a Philly exurb and people are moving here for cheaper real estate.  If I were working in the western Philly suburbs, I'd consider moving to Lancaster Co.

[Holmes]

30% Amish.

Sweet!

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But the Amish can't vote, they're Anabaptists like Jehovah's Witnesses.

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But the Amish can't vote

Few do, but some do.  Amish "doctrine" is a lot less specific about voting than the Jehovah's Witnesses are.  Amish turnout would likely be abysmal even if some didn't have religious objections.  But when they do vote, they vote very, very Democratic Republican.  Nonetheless, they're occasionally the recipients of microtargetting, enough so apparently to warrant an occasional fake-serious news article.

They're kind of the Republican counterpart of the hyper-traditional (and hyper-Democratic) Native American populations in the Southwest:  often morally opposed to voting, usually apathetic and "removed" from the process, skeptical of the system, but enough in number that the parties don't totally ignore them.

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But the Amish can't vote

Few do, but some do.  Amish "doctrine" is a lot less specific about voting than the Jehovah's Witnesses are.  Amish turnout would likely be abysmal even if some didn't have religious objections.  But when they do vote, they vote very, very Democratic.  Nonetheless, they're occasionally the recipients of microtargetting, enough so apparently to warrant an occasional fake-serious news article.

They're kind of the Republican counterpart of the hyper-traditional (and hyper-Democratic) Native American populations in the Southwest:  often morally opposed to voting, usually apathetic and "removed" from the process, skeptical of the system, but enough in number that the parties don't totally ignore them.

[Alcon]

But the Amish can't vote

Few do, but some do.  Amish "doctrine" is a lot less specific about voting than the Jehovah's Witnesses are.  Amish turnout would likely be abysmal even if some didn't have religious objections.  But when they do vote, they vote very, very Democratic.  Nonetheless, they're occasionally the recipients of microtargetting, enough so apparently to warrant an occasional fake-serious news article.

They're kind of the Republican counterpart of the hyper-traditional (and hyper-Democratic) Native American populations in the Southwest:  often morally opposed to voting, usually apathetic and "removed" from the process, skeptical of the system, but enough in number that the parties don't totally ignore them.

Yikes.  First one is "Republican."  Very, very Republican.