Editing Cottle County, Texas (section)

==Politics==
Until 2000, Cottle County went consistently [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] in [[U.S. President|presidential]] elections, except for the 1928 election, when sentiment against [[Al Smith]]’s devout Catholic faith and opposition to [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] allowed [[Herbert Hoover]] to carry the county with 51% of the vote. After [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Lyndon Johnson]], and [[Hubert Humphrey]] easily carried the county in 1960, 1964, and 1968, respectively,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1960&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1964&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1968&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref> Cottle County again voted for the Democratic candidate in the 1972 election, as it was the only county in Texas north of [[Maverick County, Texas|Maverick County]] ([[Eagle Pass, Texas|Eagle Pass]]) to have been won by [[George McGovern]], albeit by a margin of only seven votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1972&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=David Leip Presidential Atlas|access-date=May 25, 2017}}</ref> After [[Jimmy Carter]] carried it in 1976 and 1980,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1976&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1980&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref> [[Walter Mondale]] won a majority of the county's votes in 1984,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1984&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref> [[Michael Dukakis]] won the county in 1988<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1988&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref> and [[Bill Clinton]] carried it in 1992 and 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1992&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1996&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref>

Like the rest of the [[Bible Belt]], Cottle has trended powerfully Republican<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’], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref> and in the last six elections, the Republican nominee has won more than two-thirds of the vote. In 2012, [[Mitt Romney]] received 555 votes to [[Barack Obama]]’s 180,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=2012&fips=48&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref> and in 2016, Hillary Clinton won fewer than 100 votes in the county, less than a tenth as many as Jimmy Carter 40 years before.

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