Most Consistently Democratic/Republican Areas?

[H. Ross Peron]

What areas of the country have voted most consistently for Republicans or Democrats?

My personal thoughts were that the most consistent Democratic areas of the country has been New York City-it was a bastion of Confederate sympathizers such as Mayor Fernando Wood during the Rebellion.

As for most consistently Republican areas, I'd have to go with some parts of Upstate New York and rural areas of most Midwestern states.

[freepcrusher]

What areas of the country have voted most consistently for Republicans or Democrats?

My personal thoughts were that the most consistent Democratic areas of the country has been New York City-it was a bastion of Confederate sympathizers such as Mayor Fernando Wood during the Rebellion.

As for most consistently Republican areas, I'd have to go with some parts of Upstate New York and rural areas of most Midwestern states.

pretty much right. Probably some parts of South Texas too.

[traininthedistance]

Eastern Tennessee is our nation's gold standard for "most Republican".

The rural Midwest is close, but they went wobbly for FDR and LBJ's landslides, as well as Truman in '48.

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Most Democratic, yeah, Tammany Hall and the Rio Grande Valley seem like good bets.  However, NYC does have this weird tradition of Republican mayors that gives me pause (not just Giuliani and Bloomy- it goes back to folks like Fiorello LaGuardia and John Lindsay, in his first term at least).  Inner-city areas of the South might have NYC beat.

[bgwah]

Boston, too

Elliott County, KY barely kept its streak going in 2012. It won't last much longer though.

[Nichlemn]

NYC went for Harding and Coolidge.

[Torie]

Eastern TN, and the non coal Appalachian mountain area of KY, with the epicenter of that being Jackson County. Orange County, CA has been Pub since it was created in 1880 or so, but the Pub dominance is now waning.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Elliott County, KY barely kept its streak going in 2012. It won't last much longer though.

The Democratic nominee in 2016 will be (almost certainly) white.

[TDAS04]

I believe that some East Tennessee counties, such as Sevier, have not gone Democratic since Andrew Jackson.

[H. Ross Peron]

Eastern TN, and the non coal Appalachian mountain area of KY, with the epicenter of that being Jackson County. Orange County, CA has been Pub since it was created in 1880 or so, but the Pub dominance is now waning.

It was part of LA county before 1889 though and during the Civil War LA was a pro-Southron stronghold.

[Siloch]

Kane County, Utah has voted consistantly Republican since Utah participated in it's first election in 1896 (the rest of the state was solid Democratic in that first election too), it voted Democratic in 1916 the first and last time as of 2012.

[HoosierPoliticalJunkie]

Union and Snyder Counties in Pennsylvania have been consistently Republican since the Civil War. The last time either of them voted D was in 1856.