Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Greetings from Durham County, North Carolina, a blue zone where even some GOP voters recognize Donald Trump for the con man he is


Charlotte Observer, 11/8/2016
The North Carolina Republican Party opposed extending voting hours for the entire county. In a statement, Thomas Stark, the party’s general counsel, said the “brief period of known voting interruption” had been resolved promptly by local election workers, and he said there was no evidence to justify extending hours for the whole county.

Source: Wikipedia

Located in the Durham-Chapel Hill metro area
County seat is Durham

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:
  • 47.3% - Durham County
  • 29.9% - North Carolina
  • 30.9% - U.S.

In 2016, Democrats increased their already wide margin of victory by 6.7 percentage points.

Source:  Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 9.4% of vote in 1992, 4.8% of vote in 1996, 4.2% in 2016
(George Wallace received 31.6% of the vote in 1968)

Other blue zone posts:
Georgia.  DeKalb County.  (3/10/2019)
Maryland.  Howard County.  (3/9/2019)
Michigan.  Washtenaw County.  (3/9/2019)
North Carolina.  Orange County.  (3/12/2019)
Pennsylvania.  Montgomery County.  (3/11/2019)

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