Retiring Guy's Digest: Greetings from Trump's America UPDATE: Mingo County, West Virginia, 96% white, just as Trumpy as it was in 2016 and sick with the delta variant virus

Wikipedia

3rd party votes: 8.7% in 1992, 9.8% in 1996, 2/4% in 2016

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace

received 8.2% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 223 more votes than he did in 2016, a 12% increase, in a county where the 2020 population of 5,821 has decreased 43% since its 1900 peak of 10,284.

Biden received 80 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, an increase of 23%.

Trump's share of the vote increased 1.5 percentage points. Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote 1.7 percentage points.

Additional demographics:

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:

9.9% - Mingo County
20.6% - West Virginia
32.1% - U.S

% of population 65 and older:

19.8% - Mingo County
20.5% - West Virginia
16.5% - U.S.

% of population living in poverty:

27.3% - Mingo County
13.1% - West Virginia
10.5% - U.S. (they're joking, of course)

New York Times

Mingo County set a new record for highest 7-day average of new Covid cases on September 4, 2021.

New York Times

Mingo County's vaccination rate (share of population who are fully vaccinated) of 30% is below the state average of 39%.

Original 7/19/2019 post, "Mingo County, West Virginia (population 24,647), where 38,269,630 prescription pain pills were supplied from 2006 to 2012", starts here.

Ground zero of the West Virginia's
and U.S. opioid crisis

Drilling into the DEA’s pain pill database. (Washington Post, 7/18/2019)

For the first time, a database maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration that tracks the path of every single pain pill sold in the United States — by manufacturers and distributors to pharmacies in every town and city — has been made public.

The Washington Post sifted through nearly 380 million transactions from 2006 through 2012 that are detailed in the DEA’s database and analyzed shipments of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, which account for three-quarters of the total opioid pill shipments to pharmacies. The Post is making this data available at the county and state levels in order to help the public understand the impact of years of prescription pill shipments on their communities.

Related reading:
Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows. (The Guardian, 7/17/2019)

County-by-county data shows that sales of opioids were often focused on areas most blighted by the epidemic, including some of the poorest parts of Appalachia. At one point, the highest per capita deliveries were to rural Mingo county, West Virginia, where “pill mills” and pharmacies were raking in money by churning out prescriptions without question to anyone who paid cash. The practice drew caravans of drug users from hundreds of miles away.

Original 3/25/2018 post starts here

Report: Boone County leads US in per-capita opioid-related costs. (Charleston Gazette-Mail, 3/21/2018)

According to the study, six of the top 10 counties in the U.S. shouldering the highest per-capita economic cost are located in West Virginia: Boone (No. 1), Cabell (No. 3), Wayne (No. 5), Mingo (No. 7), Summers (No. 8) and Berkeley (No. 9). Those counties also have some of the highest drug overdose death rates in the state.