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Smith somewhat overperformed his average margin in Dunklin County, winning 79.65% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
Smith somewhat overperformed his average margin in Dunklin County, winning 79.65% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, Butler County is solidly Republican at the state and federal level. Though its voting patterns somewhat mirror those of the Deep South, with a white majority voting heavily in favor of the GOP on a consistent basis, the county has supported Republicans for office much longer than other parts of Southeast Missouri. From 1900 to the present, it has voted for a [[Democrat]] for president only six times, the last in 1992. (Notably, unlike most of Missouri, it only voted for [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] once, in 1932.) In the 2016 general election, the county overwhelmingly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 79.09% of the vote.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Butler 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 Dunklin County with 88.83% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county decisively defeated the measure with 61.21% 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 51.30% voting against (though it passed the state at large). These results mark Butler County as one of the state's most reliably conservative regions.
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