In Kansas, Trump received the highest percentage of the votes in Wallace County in both 2020 and 2024. The state has 105 counties.
3rd-party candidates received 20.9% of vote in 1992,
7.2% of vote in 1996, 3.9% in 2016;
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace
received 14.7% of the vote in 1968)
In Wallace County, Donald Trump received 770 votes in 2020 and 659 votes in 2024, a 14.1% decrease of 111. Overall, that's a teeny-tiny drop in the national vote bucket but an interesting outcome nonetheless.
Joe Biden received 44 votes in 2020, and Kamala Harris received 50 votes in 2024, a 13.6% increase of 6.
Wallace County's population is 1,509, which is down from its peak of 2,882 in 1930. It lost nearly one-quarter of its residents during the Dust Bowl years.
Map: New York Times (red box added)
AlterNet, 11/8/2024
Kansas interrupts Trump’s red wall. Of the 105 counties in the state, 20 of them edged toward Harris, rather than Trump.
Those Kansas counties: Barber, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche, Ellsworth, Greeley, Harper, Kingman, Lane, Logan, Morris, Morton, Ness, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Russell, Sumner, Thomas and Wallace.
Compare this long list to Missouri (only five Harris swing counties), Iowa (one), Minnesota (three), Illinois (five) and Arkansas (one). Here in Kansas, almost one in five counties swung toward Harris.
(I am warning you: Beware of considering this as good news, Kansas Democrats. Still more cold water in this bucket.)
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