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Wayne County, Missouri (view source)
Revision as of 22:32, February 5, 2020
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| Jonathan Shell || Libertarian || 4,206 || 1.591%
| Jonathan Shell || Libertarian || 4,206 || 1.591%
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Smith somewhat overperformed his average margin in Bollinger County, winning 79.493% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
Smith somewhat overperformed his average margin in Wayne County, winning 79.493% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, despite its tendency to sometimes elect Democrats to local office, Wayne County is solidly Republican at the state and federal level. It is one of a number of Missouri counties that has trended toward the GOP in recent years; it voted for [[Bill Clinton]] for president in 1992 and 1996, but flipped to support [[George W. Bush]] in 2000, and since that time has leaned Republican by steadily higher margins. In the 2016 general election, the county overwhelmingly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 80.84% of the vote.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Wayne 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 Butler County with 87.75% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county defeated the measure with 55.15% voting against. At the same time, it frequently supports economic measures that appear to favor the working and middle class. In the November 2018 election, the county narrowly supported a proposed increase in the state minimum wage, with 52.52% voting in favor (it also passed the state at large). These results generally align with the rest of southern Missouri.
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