Mississippi whites who vote Democratic

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What are the few whites in Mississippi who vote Democratic like? Where are they more common?

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Pretty obvious.  Some college town people, some government employees here and there, Millennials (specifically in urban areas), your run-of-the-mill urban White liberals and a few Yellow Dogs who have somehow managed to avoid dying yet.

All the old Yellow Dogs still living are Democrats who vote Republican, not Democratic.

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Pretty obvious.  Some college town people, some government employees here and there, Millennials (specifically in urban areas), your run-of-the-mill urban White liberals and a few Yellow Dogs who have somehow managed to avoid dying yet.

All the old Yellow Dogs still living are Democrats who vote Republican, not Democratic.

Not necessarily.  Jim Hood and Brandon Presley routinely win a majority of White voters in the more rural, conservative northern half of the state.  North Mississippi is the ancestral home of these "Blue Dogs".  This is the same region that went for Kennedy in 1960, gave Goldwater his lowest margins anywhere in the state, and went strongly for Carter in 1976 and 1980.

But don't many Republicans vote for them as well? Isn't ticket splitting common in that region?

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Polls show Mike Espy doing better with white voters than most Democrats in MS-SEN special. Could many of these voters be coming from rural northern MS?

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College students, some of the very poorest whites, government workers, some people in academia and some random urban whites. That's it lol. I mean, even postgraduate whites in Deep Southern states vote heavily for the GOP.

Postgraduate whites who vote Democratic are even more common in Deep South states like Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana than they are in Mississippi and Alabama.

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Derived from my White vote by county project

Looks like they're more common in Benton County, Desoto County, Jackson, Starkville, Oxford, and the Gulf Coast.

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If Mike Espy overperforms with whites, as a few polls show; could he beat Chris McDaniel?

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If Mike Espy overperforms with whites, as a few polls show; could he beat Chris McDaniel?

For sure, but this race will be Espy vs Smith no doubt.

Unless Trump endorses McDaniel.

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--Public employees (schoolteachers, county clerks, postal workers, etc)

--Trial lawyers in Jackson and Biloxi/Gulfport

I honestly can't think of any other coherent "groups." The rest are just random white people who have their own idiosyncratic reasons for voting Democratic.

I wouldn't even include university students because I guarantee you Republicans win white college students in Mississippi by landslides. Ole Miss gets a lot of out-of-state students who are basically rich white kids from the Atlanta suburbs. Fraternities/sororities are very big there. If you're a liberal white high schooler, there's a good chance you're going to self-select out and go to school somewhere else.

David Baria is a good example of a trial lawyer from Gulfport. Which Republican Senate candidate are young white college students more likely to vote for, Cindy Hyde-Smith or Chris McDaniel?

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I always thought younger Republicans tend to be Trumpist.

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White Democrats are surprisingly numerous in Orange County, CA. Why isn't the same true in urban Mississippi counties?

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Are young whites in Mississippi more or less Republican than older whites?

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Trump won the white vote in every county of Mississippi. In Louisiana, unlike Mississippi, Clinton won the white vote in New Orleans. Why are MS whites so Republican, even in Jackson?