San Juan County, New Mexico

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Does everyone in this county including the Hispanics hate the Natives so much they vote Republican in turn? This is an odd Republican pocket in that part of New Mexico especially considering the high Native population, and the city of Farmington is also very Republican despite being only 53.3% white.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I think it's oil or natural gas territory.

[Verily]

Also, Farmington is 70% white.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Not according to the Census or Dave's Redistricting App data.

[Verily]

Not according to the Census or Dave's Redistricting App data.

Okay, 66% as of the most recent estimates, 70% in 2000.

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=Farmington&_cityTown=Farmington&_state=04000US35&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The City Data stats must be way off if that is the case though Dave's Redistricting App matches them.

[WMS]

San Juan County is a three-cornered brawl between the Natives (Dine, for the most part), the Anglos, and the Hispanics. Each group hates the other two, and if you think Hispanics and Natives wouldn't get into a brawl, you really don't get New Mexico. ;-)

Here, read about how the Republican Anglo Governor and the Dine were on the same side while the Democratic Hispanic-dominated legislature was on the other side.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, mostly it's just Extractive and Energies Areas in the West. They're all Republican. Check the town of Paige on the other end of Navajoland.
Also, a lot of urban Dine don't vote, and those who do include more Republicans than their brethren on the reservation. (And some urban Dine probably vote in their home chapter on the rez instead of where they actually live.) And the Hispanics in San Juan, unlike further east (but like in Las Cruces and Little Texas - Albuquerque splits the difference neatly), are Mexican rather than "Spanish", which again means fewer voters.

[Hash]

I had thrown this map together not too long ago: