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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: May 15, 2016, 02:15:56 PM »

Was looking at the swing map for 2012. Looks like many Southern Ohio counties  (particularly in the South-Central part) swung to Obama, while the opposite was true of most of Northern Kentucky. However, Southern Ohio was traditionally more Republican than Northern Kentucky. In 1896, for example, McKinley won the Southern Ohio counties, while Northern Kentucky was Bryan country.

While checking the ancestry stats, I found that Adams County, OH has twice the amount of (self-reported) German ancestry (about 21%) as Lewis County, KY (10%) - even though they border each other. Looks like the Ohio River was a dividing line in that regard. Tongue Furthermore, Lewis County has more residents of English and "American" ancestry than Adams County. Ancestrally Democratic counties with a lot of "American" ancestry have been trending hard R in recent years.

Also of interest: both Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky have a lot of "Unclaimed" residents in terms of religion. White evangelicals are a distant second in both regions.

Anyway, just some observations of mine.



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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2016, 10:53:32 PM »

Lewis County was Republican even when neighboring Kentucky counties were Democratic. I'm not sure why.
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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2016, 11:16:04 PM »

Adams County traditionally voted more with Butler, Clermont, Clinton, and Highland Counties than it has with the Ohio River Counties to the east like Scioto and Lawrence. The former are ancestrally Republican and were never part of the Democratic backwards C. Still many of the south-central Ohio counties didn't swing much in 2012, but that's mostly because the already stampeded rightward in 2008.
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