Chapter 12.5
Rural counties
Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.
The question
How different are white-majority rural counties from Black Belt and Hispanic rural counties?
The data
- County election returnsYears: President 1868-2024 (40 elections); House and Senate 1990-2024
- County demographics panelYears: 2000-2024 (election years, interpolated between census and survey anchors)
county-returnscounty-demographics
The scope
Places Each row of the data is a place such as a county or a neighborhood, so results describe places. They do not describe the people in them.
The chapter sits in Part XII, Demographic axes of the vote, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.