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Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (view source)
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Smith slightly overperformed his average margin in Cape Girardeau County, winning 74.413% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
Smith slightly overperformed his average margin in Cape Girardeau County, winning 74.413% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, Cape Girardeau County is solidly Republican at the state and federal level, and is in fact known as a traditional base of support for the Missouri GOP. It has not voted for a [[Democrat]] for president since 1964, or for governor since 1968. Generally speaking, the Republicans are strongest in the northern and northwestern regions, where the population is predominantly [[Protestant]] German-American and historically Republican, and weakest in portions of the city of Cape Girardeau with a lower-class and sometimes heavily African-American population.<ref>https://www.capecountyelections.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/November-8-2016-Ballot-and-Results.pdf</ref> The Cape Girardeau area has also produced many well-known [[conservative]] leaders, including former Missouri lieutenant governor Peter Kinder, radio host [[Rush Limbaugh]], and his brother, author [[David Limbaugh]]. In the 2016 general election, the county overwhelmingly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 72.94% of the vote.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Cape Girardeau County can be included within the [[Bible Belt]], and tends to combine social [[conservatism]] with economic [[populism]]. In 2004, it voted overwhelmingly in favor of Constitutional Amendment 2, which recognized marriage as between a man and a woman only—the measure passed in Cape Girardeau County with 83.19% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county decisively defeated the measure with 63.12% voting against. At the same time, it frequently supports economic measures that appear to favor the working and middle class--though this happens less frequently than elsewhere in Southeast Missouri, possibly because of its longer tradition of identifying with the Republican Party. In the November 2018 election, the county rejected a proposed increase in the state minimum wage, with 51.48% voting against (though it passed the state at large). These results mark Cape Girardeau County as one of the state's most reliably conservative regions.
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