Differences between northern and southern parts of rural Nevada?

[Figueira]

I notice that there's a divide between the northern and southern parts of Nevada, even when you get outside of Reno and Las Vegas, in the Democratic caucuses. The north went for Clinton in 2008 and Sanders in 2016, while the south went for Obama in 2008 and Clinton in 2016. Does anyone know why this is?

[RI]

There isn't really that stark of a divide, as you can see from the caucus precinct map. Nye County, for instance, takes up a massive amount of territory in the state, but 83% of its population lives in Pahrump, a libertarian exurb of Vegas at the very southern tip of the county.

That said, one thing that southern Nevada has is a much larger military/DoD presence than the north. Mineral County is very tied to Hawthorne Army Depot, Lincoln County has the Nevada Test Site (Area 51), the non-Pahrump portions of Nye have Nellis Air Force Range, etc. while northern Nevada is generally devoid of these installations.

[Figueira]

There isn't really that stark of a divide, as you can see from the caucus precinct map. Nye County, for instance, takes up a massive amount of territory in the state, but 83% of its population lives in Pahrump, a libertarian exurb of Vegas at the very southern tip of the county.

That said, one thing that southern Nevada has is a much larger military/DoD presence than the north. Mineral County is very tied to Hawthorne Army Depot, Lincoln County has the Nevada Test Site (Area 51), the non-Pahrump portions of Nye have Nellis Air Force Range, etc. while northern Nevada is generally devoid of these installations.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the map; I was wondering where I could find one of those.

As a side note, it must be really inconvenient that the county seat of Nye County is so far away from where all the people are.

[Hydera]

I notice that there's a divide between the northern and southern parts of Nevada, even when you get outside of Reno and Las Vegas, in the Democratic caucuses. The north went for Clinton in 2008 and Sanders in 2016, while the south went for Obama in 2008 and Clinton in 2016. Does anyone know why this is?

Actually both obama and Bernie won Northern Nevada. While Clinton both times won Southern Nevada where the metro Las Vegas area is(She won most of the Hispanic and Black precincts).

Northern Nevada and a huge swath of mountain state counties,



Obama won the mountain state region and Northern Nevada is a part of it despite being a desert.

The best explanation you'd find for them voting for Obama and Bernie is that the Mountain state democrats are Anti-establishment voters who trended towards people they perceive as being part of "the establishment".

OR that somehow their views not being popular in this strongly conservative region of the country(Republicans usually win this area by large margins) has made them radicalized against the more "establishment candidates".