Who are rural Democratic voters today?

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Excluding rural New England voters. Discuss.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Excluding rural New England voters. Discuss.

Minorities including Hispanics(They swung trump but they still vote majority Democrat), Ancestral Democrats(Still exist even if they are getting very old) and people who are just fundamentally liberal and identify with the democratic party, There's about a 10 Per cent floor for democrats among any demographic beyond which they don't fall.

[H. Ross Peron]

Black Belt, Indian reservation residents, some residual support in historic mining/logging areas (Iron Range/Montana), former urbanites who moved to rural areas, some relatively secular WWC areas (esp on the West Coast)

[Alcibiades]

In most very Republican rural areas, Dems are still getting 20-30% of the vote; there will inevitably be people in nearly every area who are Democrats. These will include teachers, other public sector employees and union members, some educated professionals and lawyers, people reliant on welfare/social security who are actually voting in their interests, young people, residual ancestral/New Deal Democrats, and people who just happen to be liberal in spite of their demographic profile.

[Former President tack50]

From a quick look at the 2020 map, the Democratic rural areas outside of New England could be summed up as follows:

1) Rural majority black areas (example, several counties in northwest Mississippi)
2) Rural supermajority hispanic areas* (example, South Texas)
3) Rural Hawaii (example, Kawai county, HI)
4) Rural Alaska in areas that are majority native
5) Native American reservation counties (example, Ogala Lakota county, SD)
6) Ski counties (example, Teton County, WY)
7) College town counties (example, Athens County, OH)

*: These trended R, but still generally vote Democratic. Just by 60-40 or 55-45 now instead of 70-30

[walleye26]

Like everyone else said, rural black counties and Indian reservations. Also, ski resort counties.
In Wisconsin (and probably some other western/eastern counties) there are some retired liberals or “off the grid” types that live in certain areas. I’m thinking of places like Moab, UT.
In Wisconsin, there are some townships where retired Chicago/Twin Cities/Milwaukee liberals move up to their summer cabins. This explains why certain townships in northern Wisconsin vote liberal. A few examples of this are Bass Lake in Sawyer County, Butternut in Ashland County, Lac du Flambeau (yes, that is a tribal reservation, but there are lots of Chicago liberals retired there) in Vilas County, and a few places in Bayfield County near the Apostle Islands, and Anderson/Gurney in Iron County.

[mileslunn]

In addition to above mentioned, I would say areas where tourism is the main economic driver as well as places with lots of liberal transplants from cities (i.e. Columbia County, New York; Leelanau County, Michigan).  Other is areas near a college town as it seems liberal impact from colleges tends to extend into nearby rural areas, see rural parts of Dane County, Wisconsin or Washetenaw County, Michigan which still vote Democrat unlike other rural areas in state.

[Bismarck]

Honestly excluding the obvious ones like teachers and minorities most are just random people who happen to be democrats and/or for whatever reason chose to consume democratic media. I have an uncle by marriage who lives in a conservative small town in Indiana and he is a democrat I think just because he likes to be contrarian. I don’t think rural professionals are especially democratic, unless they have government jobs. Most people with high incomes in rural Indiana, educated or not, are strongly republican.

[VPH]

Anecdotally (so don't extrapolate this without more data), when I volunteered on the Sanders campaign in Kansas in 2016, most of our older rural volunteers were more left-wing than their age cohort of Sanders fans from Wichita. There seemed to be a subset of rural Democrats who were old-left true believers living in 80%+ Republican counties. Seems like the flipside of the few vocal GOPers in large cities like San Francisco being aggressively conservative.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Hi it’s me, rural democrat voter. I know of other rural democrats too