Tell me more about Jackson County - Democratic Underground

bluestateguy

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Sun Dec-28-08 02:20 PM
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Tell me more about Jackson County

This county in the northeastern corner of the state intrigues me. Jackson Co. voted for Mondale and Dukakis, twice for Clinton and for Al Gore in 2000 by a narrow margin. Then in 2004, it voted pretty solidly for Bush and for McCain by a big margin in 2008.

So what is up here? Are the demographics changing in Jackson County, or are attitudes moving to the Right over there?

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Syrinx

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Mon Dec-29-08 03:32 AM
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1. I don't know much about Jackson County

Edited on Mon Dec-29-08 03:34 AM by Syrinx

Other than it has a very small black population, and is historically a Democratic stronghold. I would guess that the Bush and McCain victories represent a continuation of the trend of white Alabama voters going increasingly Republican in presidential elections. (Though white Alabamians voting for Obama weren't quite as rare as the media would have you believe. I simply do not believe that he got only 10% of the white vote statewide, since he got 17.5% of the vote in virtually all-white Winston county.)

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