Wallace/Obama counties

[they don't love you like i love you]

Anyone got a list?

[Verily]

Louisiana
East Baton Rouge
Tensas
Caddo
St. John the Baptist
Iberville
St. Helena

Arkansas
Crittenden
Woodruff
Jefferson
Saint Francis
Desha

Tennessee
Haywood
Hardeman
Houston
Davidson

Virginia
Brunswick
Buckingham
Chesapeake

South Carolina
Barnwell

Florida
Jefferson
Leon
Gadsden
Flagler

Someone else can do the rest. All the remaining ones are in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and North Carolina, but there are a lot of them.

[minionofmidas]

Jefferson AL off the top of my head - it voted Republican every year in between.

[memphis]

Lots of majority black counties in the South.

[nclib]

Lots of majority black counties in the South.

Is there a single county on that list that is not majority-black? (other than those where Wallace won by a split in the vote)

[Verily]

Lots of majority black counties in the South.

Is there a single county on that list that is not majority-black? (other than those where Wallace won by a split in the vote)

Just glancing at the list, Flagler County, Florida is only 8.8% black. But its population has exploded over the past few decades; when Wallace won it, it was a rural county with a population definitely below 10,000, possibly under 5,000; recent population estimates place it close to 80,000 people.

[memphis]

Lots of majority black counties in the South.

Is there a single county on that list that is not majority-black? (other than those where Wallace won by a split in the vote)

Davidson is not even close to majority black. Massive conservative flight to the collar counties though.

[DariusNJ]

Lots of majority black counties in the South.

Is there a single county on that list that is not majority-black? (other than those where Wallace won by a split in the vote)

Just glancing at the list, Flagler County, Florida is only 8.8% black. But its population has exploded over the past few decades; when Wallace won it, it was a rural county with a population definitely below 10,000, possibly under 5,000; recent population estimates place it close to 80,000 people.

Yup, Flagler is a swing county in Florida now. Gore won it in 2000, so Obama's victory was not a huge surprise.

[nclib]

Lots of majority black counties in the South.

Is there a single county on that list that is not majority-black? (other than those where Wallace won by a split in the vote)

Davidson is not even close to majority black. Massive conservative flight to the collar counties though.

Yes, but Wallace only won with 35.1% (as I said earlier: other than those where Wallace won by a split in the vote)

[Verily]

Douglas County, Georgia is another where Wallace won over 50% of the voted (57%) and Obama won it in 2008 without it being majority black. It's another fast-growing county, though, and one with a rapidly increasing black population.