Top Dem and Rep results, by state

[minionofmidas]

Tennessee
Most Dem
1960 Lincoln
1964 Trousdale
1968 Trousdale
1972 Stewart
1976 Jackson
1980 Grundy
1984 Houston
1988 Grundy

Most Rep
1988 Sevier
1992 Johnson
1996 Williamson
2000 Bradley
2004 Williamson

That was leaving the boring parts out.
The boring parts are
Most Dem
92-04 Jackson
Most Rep
60-84 Johnson

2008 Dem: Shelby, Rep: Bradley

[minionofmidas]

Forgot to mention that Wallace's best TN result was in Crockett County.

[minionofmidas]

'Bama (Anybody here seen True Romance, btw?)
Most Dem
60 Crenshaw
64, 68 Macon
72 Greene
76 Lawrence
80- Macon

2008 Macon

Most Rep
60 Winston
64 Wilcox
68 Winston
72 Clay
76, 80 Baldwin
84-00 Shelby
04 Blount

2008 Blount

Most AmInd
68 Geneva

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Mississippi (I'll do the last four sometime next week)
Dem
60 Alcorn
64 Hancock
68 Jefferson
72 Claiborne
76-00 Jefferson
04 Claiborne
Claiborne and Jefferson are neighboring counties in SW Mississippi.

2008 Jefferson

Rep
60 Lowndes
64 Holmes (just eight years later, Holmes was one of three counties in the state to vote for George McGovern)
68 Washington
72 George
76 Rankin
80 Rankin
84 Lamar
88-00 Rankin
04 Lamar

1960 Independent Electors: Amite
1968 Wallace: George (Nixon's best four years later)

2008 George.

plus ça change...

Total vote cast:
1948 192K
1952 286K
1956 248K
1960 298K despite the three-way competition
1964 409K...this surprised me. The results always made me believe that Black voting was still well-nigh nonexistent in Mississippi in 1964...so why would so many Whites vote?
1968 655K That's with the Blacks voting. Patterns already look a lot like what they have looked like since.
1972 didn't take the figure down, but slight drop
1976 769K

[minionofmidas]

North Carolina
Most Dem
1960 Martin
64, 68 Northampton
72 Orange
76 Robeson
80 Hoke
84 Northampton
88, 92 Warren
86 Northampton
00 Hertford
04 Durham. Seems like in NC, it's the Dem who can't sit still...

Yes, alternating between the minority counties in the northeast and southeast of N.C. and the urbanized, "Northernized", counties of Orange and Durham.

BTW, where was Wallace's best showing?

Currituck.

[minionofmidas]

Arkansas
Most Dem
1960 Calhoun
1964 Izard
1968 Chicot
1972 Conway
1976 Lincoln
1980 Clark
1984 Chicot
1988 Woodruff
1992 Woodruff
1996 Lee
2000 Lee
2004 Woodruff

2008 Phillips

Most Rep
1960 Searcy
1964 Sebastian
1968 Searcy
1972 Crawford
1976 Newton
1980 Crawford
1984- Benton

2008 Grant.

Wallace: Cleveland

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Louisiana
Most Dem
1960 Cameron
1964 Saint James
1968 West Feliciana
1972 East Carroll (although W Feliciana was the only parish carried by McGovern)
1976 Cameron
1980 Iberville
1984- Orleans

2008 Orleans

Most Rep
1960 La Salle
1964 Tensas
1968 Lafayette
1972 Plaquemines
1976 Plaquemines
1980 Jefferson
1984 La Salle
1988 La Salle
1992 Saint Tammany
1996 Saint Tammany
2000 La Salle
2004 La Salle

2008 La Salle

1960 Unpledged: Plaquemines
1968 Wallace: Livingston

Re 1964: Tensas and Saint James both have strong black populations...the difference is that in Southern Louisiana Blacks voted by 1964, and indeed - so it would appear - 1960, while things took longer in the North.

Also, see the Plaquemines thread.

[minionofmidas]

Oklahoma

Dig this: In the last eight elections, eight different counties produced the Dems' top results.

Most Dem
1960 Love
1964-72 Jefferson
76 Atoka
80 Bryan
84 Hughes
88 Jefferson
92 Haskell
96 Choctaw
00 Okmulgee
04 McIntosh

2008: Dig this. In the last eight nine elections, eight nine different counties produced the Dems' top results.
 
08: Cherokee

Most Rep
60-72 Major
76 Washington
80 Major
84. 88 Texas
92- Beaver

08 Beaver

[minionofmidas]

Somebody else do Texas.
Or maybe we force them to retroactively abolish half their counties.
I did this much yet:
     Dem    Rep
92 Starr   Hansford
96 Starr   Ochiltree
00 Duval  Glasscock
04 Zavala Ochiltree

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     Dem    Rep
60 Starr   Ochiltree
64 Duval  Ochiltree
68 Duval  Gillespie
72 Duval  Ochiltree
76 Starr   Gillespie
80 Duval  Ochiltree
84 Zavala Hansford
88 Starr   Ochiltree
92 Starr   Hansford
96 Starr   Ochiltree
00 Duval  Glasscock
04 Zavala Ochiltree

08 Starr    King

And now for a real shocker - While most of Wallace's good results were in Far East Texas where you'd expect them, his single best result (49.1%) was in Loving County.

[minionofmidas]

I think Loving County is one of the smallest counties in the entire country (or at least it is now).

I know that. It was tiny back then, too.
But in many surrounding counties, Wallace was a non-presence, so this was surprising.

[minionofmidas]

I guess there's lots of people who once lived there and are still registered there. Some of them might still own property there, might vacation there etc.
Still, they do need to clean up their voter register, and IIRC they tried after 2000.

[minionofmidas]

I used to live in El Paso and Loving County is in the same congressional district. If I recall correctly Loving County is totally within one ranch so the entire county is privately owned. I would think many odd things could happen there if that is true.

Well, you must have been living far on the outskirts of El Paso then.

[minionofmidas]

Bump for nclib who asked fot it. I hope this is the thread you meant.

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I've started editting 2008 in. First page is done.

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All done.

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Interesting.

If current trendlines continue, it won't be for much longer. Big if perhaps, the Dem vote in western Mass. and on the Vineyard might well be maxed out now, but they've come pretty close to Suffolk this year.

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Shannon was Republican back in New Deal days IIRC (of course Indians only got the vote in 1924). Jackson and Grant have voted Republican every chance they got since the Civil War, although that doesn't mean they must always have been *the most* Republican. Sioux is some weird Dutch Reformed Fundamentalist enclave.

If someone looks this up though, could they add Deer Lodge MT which lost its place as most Democratic county in the state this year?

[minionofmidas]

Leslie is the easternmost of the superheavily Republican south central kentucky counties, abutting the sothern coalfield counties that have swung against the Dems so very, very hard (and begun to do so before the northern part. Oh, and thus restored the pre-New Deal pattern for a fleeting moment in 04, these places also having old Unionist Republican traditions. Although what mattered more is their strong Evangelical tradition. Though the issue is related. End of weird aside.) So they took part in that swing a bit and usurped Jackson County's traditional place? That's actually funny.

[minionofmidas]

Hmmm. If coal mining started late, like after the mass introduction of cars, it wouldn't have much of an effect (since miners wouldn't necessarily live in the county). But the county's population rose massively in the 30s (though, again, not that massively), dropped like a stone in the 50s, rose again in the 70s. That looks like the coalfield might have opened in the 30s. It appears to have never been unionized, though.

Also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Creek_mine_disaster
http://www.usmra.com/saxsewell/finley.htm