2004 Presidential Results of the wealthiest county in each state

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Interesting.

PCI also tends to help counties with few children.

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This is poorest PCI.  A lot of states are missing because Wikipedia didn't have the info.

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Alcon, what year is that poorest PCI from?

1999 Census

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Funny that Blaine is the only county in Idaho I believe that voted Dem and it is the richest

It's a ski resort county.  The same thing also happened with Wyoming (Jackson).  Ski counties were also the top income earners in Colorado (Pitkin) and Utah (Summit).

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Funny that Blaine is the only county in Idaho I believe that voted Dem and it is the richest

It's a ski resort county.  The same thing also happened with Wyoming (Jackson).  Ski counties were also the top income earners in Colorado (Pitkin) and Utah (Summit).

Isn't Wyoming actually Teton County? (Jackson is the city)

Anyhow, in addition to being the top income earners, they were also the most Democratic in Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah, with Pitkin being Colorado's third most Democratic county.

Sorry, yeah.

Ski areas tend to have high PCIs because they tend to have a lot of fairly well-off singles.

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Although areas with a lot of singles tend to vote Democratic, correlation does not imply causation--why do ski areas vote heavily Democratic?

Young, well-educated single people in the service industry are heavily Democratic anywhere.  And they tend to be socially liberal, unsurprising considering the culture of these areas.

Although it would take a while to find the data, I'd be interested in seeing a map of the results of the best-educated county in each state. I'd bet that the vast majority of states would have their best-educated county be much more Democratic than the state at-large.

Bachelor's degree?  Grad degree?  What?

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This information is way harder to find than it should be.  All I can find includes counties of an unspecified size or larger...

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Is there even a list of the top well-educated counties in the U.S. by Bachelor's Degree?

Yeah, that's what I found.  But it was only of counties of a certain population.

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Is there even a list of the top well-educated counties in the U.S. by Bachelor's Degree?

Yeah, that's what I found.  But it was only of counties of a certain population.

If you could please link it here, that would be great.

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Page 8 of this site shows a U.S. educational attainment (Bach. degree) map by county. I tried for a few states to note the counties with the highest shading, and then look up the exact numbers for each county in American FactFinder, but that can be a bit difficult for states such as Colorado, where 15 counties have the highest shading.

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/Ranking/2002/R02T050.htm

As you can see, there's a lot of counties missing.

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Of states with counties appearing in the top 100

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Sad, sad news for the Democrats, in some respects.

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Looks like of the top 100 fastest counties, the only ones to vote for Kerry were St. Lucie County (FL), Clark County (NV), and Hoke County (NC). Does anybody know why these counties vote Democratic?

St. Lucie, FL - As far as I can tell, it's not at all affluent - at least it wasn't before the population boom.  Seems to be standard, south Florida not-so-well-to-do whites.

Clark, NV - Las Vegas.  I can elaborate if you want, but you get the idea.

Hoke, NC - Blacks, Indians and some poor whites

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This has Hennepin as the wealthiest in Minnesota, which shows how misleading and skewed this data can be. The very wealthy parts of Hennepin that drive those numbers up vote Republican, and there are plenty of parts of it that aren't exactly wealthy.

How is that misleading?

It has poor parts, it has wealthy parts.  Overall, the median is wealthy.

It's presenting what it says.

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Because it's not the wealthy parts that make it vote Democratic.

The median voter is probably wealthier than in any county.

The median voter in the county is a Democrat.

Unless you think that the poor cast more votes than the wealthy, even though the wealthy are more of the county...that doesn't entirely make sense.

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Take a look at this place. It voted 65% Bush: http://www.city-data.com/city/Corcoran-Minnesota.html

How do you think the poor parts of Minneapolis vote?

Fascinating.

But does not negate my point.