re: #185 HappyWarrior

That’s interesting. The county of my birth too was one that Clinton lost to Dole and H.W Bush but is now reliably Democratic. Any reason for Hinds trend that you know of? Fairfax can be explained by the increasing diversity but also more educated voters as a whole there in recent years as well as the GOP’s drift to the right on social issues.

You can probably guess a major one- Hinds County is more than 70% black today according to the Census Bureau. That’s up from 61% in 2000 and 51% in 1990. White flight has hit Jackson hard.