Editing Greenlee County, Arizona (section)

==Politics==
Greenlee County used to be the most reliably Democratic county in Arizona, owing to the presence of the [[Copper mining in Arizona|copper mining industry]]. As the county was heavily unionized and the Democratic Party was generally the party of organized labor, Greenlee County voted for the Democratic nominee in every presidential election from the state's admission to the Union in 1912 to 1996, being one of only seven [[Mountain States|Mountain State]] counties to support [[George McGovern]] in his landslide defeat against [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Richard Nixon]] in [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]].{{efn|The others were [[Deer Lodge County, Montana|Deer Lodge]] and [[Silver Bow County, Montana|Silver Bow]] in Montana, [[Costilla County, Colorado|Costilla]] and [[Pitkin County, Colorado|Pitkin]] in Colorado, and [[San Miguel County, New Mexico|San Miguel]] and [[Rio Arriba County, New Mexico|Rio Arriba]] in New Mexico.}} Even [[Ronald Reagan]] was unable to win it in his 49 state landslide in [[1984 United States presidential election|1984]]. However, in 2000, [[George W. Bush]] became the first Republican presidential candidate to win the county, and it has voted for the Republican nominee in the five elections since, giving [[Donald Trump]] 66% of the vote in [[2020 United States presidential election in Arizona|2020]]. The county's turn to the GOP can likely be explained by the Democratic Party's modern platform of [[Environmental movement in the United States|environmentalism]] that has been perceived as anti-mining (for example, Bush's 2000 opponent, [[Al Gore]], was staunchly against coal mining).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aheadoftheherd.com/not-hard-to-dig-a-hole-anti-mining-democrats-say/ |title=Biden controlled by Liberal progressives and environmentalists |publisher=Aheadoftheherd.com |date=May 27, 2021 |access-date=March 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97825453 |title=Gore Group, Industry Butt Heads Over 'Clean Coal' |publisher=NPR |date=December 4, 2008 |access-date=March 20, 2022}}</ref> Greenlee County continued to shift right in 2024, with [[Kamala Harris]] becoming the first Democrat in history to fail to break 30%.

{{PresHead|place=Greenlee County, Arizona|source=<ref>{{cite web|title = Dave Leip's Atlas of United States Presidential Elections | access-date = June 11, 2011 | url = http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|2,308|954|54|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|2,433|1,182|81|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|1,892|1,092|316|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|1,592|1,310|84|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|1,712|1,165|43|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|1,899|1,146|22|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|1,619|1,216|125|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|1,159|1,755|479|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,451|1,695|847|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,526|1,733|43|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|1,801|1,963|21|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|1,537|2,043|202|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|1,532|2,601|114|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|1,758|2,013|87|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|1,026|2,434|291|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,132|3,147|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|1,313|3,069|4|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|1,784|2,711|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|1,377|3,019|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|680|2,069|212|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|739|1,956|9|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|619|2,175|9|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|218|1,526|27|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|377|1,558|19|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|685|935|8|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|404|768|176|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|905|1,131|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|672|1,492|170|Arizona}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|109|652|413|Arizona}}

The county is located in [[Arizona's 6th congressional district]], which has a [[Cook Partisan Voting Index]] of R+3 and is represented by Republican Congressman [[Juan Ciscomani]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Ryan Best, Aaron Bycoffe and Nathaniel Rakich |url=https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/arizona/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809103943/https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/arizona/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 9, 2021 |title=What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State – Arizona |publisher=[[FiveThirtyEight]] |date=January 20, 2022 |access-date=March 20, 2022}}</ref> In the [[Arizona House of Representatives]] it is represented by Republican Becky Nutt and Republican Drew John.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H |title=Member Roster at Arizona Legislature |access-date=May 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503034030/http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H |archive-date=May 3, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the [[Arizona Senate]] it is represented by Republican [[Gail Griffin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp |title=Member Roster for Arizona Senate |access-date=May 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513220822/http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp |archive-date=May 13, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>