Editing Jasper County, Illinois (section)

==Politics==
Jasper is politically a fairly typical "anti-[[Yankee]]" Southern Illinois county. Opposition to the "[[Yankee]]" Republican Party and that party's [[American Civil War|Civil War]] meant that Jasper County voted solidly Democratic until isolationist sentiment drove its voters to [[Warren G. Harding]] in 1920.

Since the [[New Deal]], the county has shown a steady trend away from the Democratic Party due to major shifts in that party's views – initially on economic policies and since the 1990s on social issues.<ref>Cohn, Nate; [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’], ''[[New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref> Only one Democrat, [[Lyndon Johnson]], has won a majority since 1940 in his 1964 landslide.  It appears to be a statistical change in the [[Upland South]], that Barack Obama in 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 did far worse than any previous Democrat candidates for president.

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