According to this list list (registration required), the most Republican county in America is Glasscock County, Texas, with 93.1% of its 571 votes going to the GOP in the 2000 Presidential election. Orange County, CA doesn’t even make the top 100 list. I wonder who those 40 brave souls who voted for Gore and Nader were, though I suspect they instead voted with the Constitution, Liberty, and Handmaid’s Tale parties.
I’ve been out that general direction a few times, and don’t recall there being much of anything but bible-thumpers, tumbleweeds and the occasional dust storm. The land’s so flat you can stand on a chair and watch your dog run away from you for three days.
There’s only 1400 people in the whole 900-square-mile county, according to this site. If they want to be all Republican and shit, let 'em, I say.
This gal, who lived in da Bronx a little less than half her life, is here to tell you that Democratic /= liberal, necessarily. Somebody lecturing on gay or abortion rights is not going to meet with a rousing reception, and the working people (mostly non-white, as 86% of my fellow county-ites aren’t) loved Clinton’s welfare reform.
But Democratic? Sure. There’s lots of flavors, though, and the rest of the city doesn’t fall into line either–our last coupla Republican mayors, for example, would probably be looked on as Satan’s spawn in Glasscock.