Hamilton County, Ohio

[Torie]

Cincinnati was always a Pub town. It was a pro Union, pro Lincoln area surrounded by territory that was not interested in abolishing slavery, it never received much of an influx of Eastern Europeans, never had much of lower skilled CIO union industry, as opposed to higher skilled AFL types of jobs, its Jewish community was German, and bourgeoise, and well integrated into the establishment, and Republican, and then it began to get its working class from the Republican mountains of Kentucky. And it has never had much of an influx of the liberal white gentry (the number of heavily white Dem precincts is amazingly few), because it is still mostly a manufacturing town (with no major universities). What has moved the city/county towards the Dems is the increase in the black population percentage. Come to think of it, the Hispanics are really thin on the ground as well. The metro area is the most Pub metro area of some size almost anywhere in the nation, outside of Phoenix perhaps, and some areas in the South.