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Smith slightly overperformed his average margin in Perry County, winning 77.569% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
Smith slightly overperformed his average margin in Perry County, winning 77.569% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, Perry County is solidly Republican at the state and federal level, and has in fact been known as a traditional stronghold for the Missouri GOP since the early 20th century. Much of this can be attributed to the high number of German-Americans, who have tended to vote Republican since their arrival in the mid-19th century. The county voted for a [[Democrat]] for president only twice in the 20th century, in 1932 and 1964. In fact, it has only trended more strongly Republican since the 1990s, with its mostly rural, middle- and working-class population being alienated by the Democratic Party's social radicalism. In the 2016 general election, the county overwhelmingly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 79.04% of the vote.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Perry 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 Perry County with 85.07% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county decisively defeated the measure with 69.45% voting against. At the same time, it often 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 narrowly rejected a proposed increase in the state minimum wage, with 50.44% voting against (though it passed the state at large). These results mark Perry County as one of the state's most reliably [[conservative]] regions.
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