Editing Dyer County, Tennessee (section)

==Politics==
Like most of the rural South, Dyer County is presently overwhelmingly Republican. The last Democrat to carry this county was [[Bill Clinton]] in 1996. Being overwhelmingly secessionist during [[American Civil War|the Civil War]] due to the strong power of the slave economy in [[West Tennessee]], Dyer County was overwhelmingly Democratic for a century after its blacks were [[Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era|disfranchised]]. Anti-Catholicism allowed [[Richard Nixon]] to carry the county narrowly in 1960, then after the massive revolt against the Civil Rights Act and race riots segregationist [[List of governors of Alabama|Alabama Governor]] George Wallace carried the county in 1968 and Nixon defeated George McGovern three-to-one in 1972. Since then the county has become increasingly Republican except when Southerners Jimmy Carter and Clinton headed the presidential ticket.
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|11,603|2,707|99|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|11,768|3,158|153|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|10,180|2,816|340|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|9,921|3,757|138|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|9,859|4,411|180|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|8,447|5,287|75|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|6,282|5,425|134|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|5,059|5,602|713|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|5,668|5,845|1,274|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|6,508|3,690|45|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|6,610|3,991|41|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|5,475|5,713|219|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|4,391|5,937|150|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|6,066|1,600|322|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|2,826|2,033|5,842|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|4,517|4,717|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|4,097|3,868|238|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|2,682|4,524|201|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|3,231|4,531|61|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|989|3,503|872|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,190|3,368|18|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|961|3,374|45|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|557|3,355|87|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|389|3,805|28|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|842|2,661|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|478|2,336|10|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|1,166|3,181|10|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|459|1,997|36|Tennessee}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|318|1,469|430|Tennessee}}