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Title: Cottle County, Texas Post by: Anzeigenhauptmeister on September 20, 2019, 07:31:01 PM I think I don't have to introduce this Texan county with its special electoral history to you.
Despite being a tiny county (only 3,200 inhabitants in the 70's), Cottle was a Democratic isle surrounded by a deep ocean of deadly water in the 1972 presidential election, having voted for McGovern by only 7 votes or 0.6%. All of its adjacent counties voted for Nixon by distinct margins, with Foard being the most Democratic county. How likely is it that the official result for this county and for that election is not correct? () Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: I spent the winter writing songs about getting better on September 20, 2019, 11:20:21 PM Most likely the local Dixiecratic machine here was still able to deliver for McGovern while neighboring counties didn't bother.
Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: TrendsareUsuallyReal on September 21, 2019, 12:15:34 AM I have never heard of Cottle County before this.
Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: Skill and Chance on September 21, 2019, 01:40:56 PM I have never heard of Cottle County before this. The last rural Dem county standing in northwest Texas. Finally flipped for Bush in 2000 (and by a 2/1 margin at that). Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: lfromnj on September 22, 2019, 11:17:12 PM I have never heard of Cottle County before this. The last rural Dem county standing in northwest Texas. Finally flipped for Bush in 2000 (and by a 2/1 margin at that). The last one is Foard . Its the only one Bill white won in 2010. Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: morgankingsley on September 24, 2019, 08:08:54 PM Probably people who still believed in the democratic party until their dying days who vote every time
Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: Sumner 1868 on September 26, 2019, 11:23:48 PM I don't know if this has ever discussed before, but why exactly was there a streak of Democratic counties south of the very Republican Texas Panhandle for so long? Public works? Cotton or tobacco subsidies? Something else?
Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: morgankingsley on September 27, 2019, 10:25:08 PM I don't know if this has ever discussed before, but why exactly was there a streak of Democratic counties south of the very Republican Texas Panhandle for so long? Public works? Cotton or tobacco subsidies? Something else? Out of those three, maybe public works Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: VPH on September 29, 2019, 03:14:37 PM I don't know if this has ever discussed before, but why exactly was there a streak of Democratic counties south of the very Republican Texas Panhandle for so long? Public works? Cotton or tobacco subsidies? Something else? Out of those three, maybe public works Part of it was also just ancestral leanings--some counties were populated by Southern-stock people who migrated to Texas. Title: Re: Cottle County, Texas Post by: lfromnj on October 08, 2019, 02:38:57 PM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South
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