Dukakis 1988/Dole 1996 counties

[mianfei]

• Crisp, Georgia
• Clearwater, Idaho
• Lewis, Idaho
• Buena Vista, Iowa
• Humboldt, Iowa
• Marion, Iowa
• Sac, Iowa
• Ellis, Kansas
• Owen, Kentucky
• Robertson, Kentucky
• Lewis and Clark, Montana
• Lincoln, Montana
• Greene, North Carolina
• Aurora, South Dakota
• Spink, South Dakota
• Briscoe, Texas
• Calhoun, Texas
• Clay, Texas
• Concho, Texas
• Hardin, Texas
• Lee, Texas
• McCulloch, Texas
• Navarro, Texas
• Polk, Texas
• San Jacinto, Texas
• San Saba, Texas
• Throckmorton, Texas

Fewer that I had expected when I checked, given the rapid collapse of democratic support outside urban areas since Bill Clinton. All rural counties (Lewis and Clark is a smallish city and the only one to vote Democratic since Gore) but less farm belt-centric than I expected (though parts of Texas are in the farm belt).

[mianfei]

A map of these counties, which were a tentative first step according to the 2016 map, by which the Democrats lost their then-significant rural base to cater for the socially liberal cities, whose populations would not vote even for a Bill Clinton.

[SingingAnalyst]

I'm amazed GA had one (Crisp), given that the state as a whole went from R by 20% in 1988 to R by 1% in 1996.

[Kingpoleon]

Crisp County did not have one. My sources say it voted for Clinton(47.3%/2,504) over Dole(43.8% 2,321), and then third parties(8.9%/471).