Editing Hardin County, Tennessee (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|10,293|1,704|97|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|9,559|1,775|204|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|8,012|1,622|315|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|7,886|2,467|142|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|7,077|2,794|164|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|6,087|3,834|33|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|4,951|3,735|96|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|3,980|3,508|629|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|3,875|3,922|795|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|4,252|2,808|29|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,632|3,051|90|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|4,152|3,164|119|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|3,362|3,438|52|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|4,401|1,202|166|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,910|1,153|2,325|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|3,025|2,620|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,323|1,690|85|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|2,898|1,734|48|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|2,459|1,677|12|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|1,779|1,270|228|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,124|1,358|18|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|2,264|1,957|26|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,348|1,538|9|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|1,036|806|9|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,580|707|6|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,175|618|4|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|3,077|1,398|12|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,811|979|10|Tennessee}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Republican|955|738|624|Tennessee}}
Hardin County is overwhelmingly Republican, and, even before the rapid trend of the upland South away from the Democratic Party, was a [[Southern Unionist|Unionist]] Republican enclave in historically Democratic [[West Tennessee]]. This is due to the shallow, humus-poor and easily erodible [[Highland Rim]] soils, which were much less suitable for plantation farming than the rest of [[Middle Tennessee|Middle]] and West Tennessee.<ref>Wright, John K.; ‘Voting Habits in the United States: A Note on Two Maps’; ''Geographical Review'', vol. 22, no. 4 (October 1932), pp. 666-672</ref> Since [[American Civil War|the Civil War]], only three Democratic Presidential candidates have ever carried Hardin County – [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1936, [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976, and [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992 – with only FDR achieving a margin of more than 100 votes.