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Smith somewhat overperformed his average margin in Ripley County, winning 79.702% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
Smith somewhat overperformed his average margin in Ripley County, winning 79.702% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, though it sometimes continues to vote Democratic at the local level, Ripley County is solidly Republican at the state and federal level. Its voting patterns mirror those in much of the South and lower Midwest, and reflect those in the counties of the Ozarks to the west and the "Bootheel" to the east. In the 2016 general election, the county overwhelmingly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 81.86% of the vote.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Ripley 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 Ripley County with 89.06% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county defeated the measure with 57.39% 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 voted in favor of an increase in the state minimum wage (though with only 50.24% support, a somewhat smaller margin than elsewhere in the state). These results generally align with the rest of Southeast Missouri.
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