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Pemiscot County, Missouri (view source)
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Smith slightly underperformed in Pemiscot County, defeating Ellis by a margin of 2,985 votes to 1,455.
Smith slightly underperformed in Pemiscot County, defeating Ellis by a margin of 2,985 votes to 1,455.
<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, though it continues to vote Democratic at the local level, Pemiscot County is solidly [[Republican]] at the state and federal level. Its voting patterns mirror those in much of the South and lower Midwest, with a white majority that has gradually swung its support to the Republicans, and an African-American minority that continues to vote heavily Democratic. This is especially noticeable in Hayti and Caruthersville, which have large black populations and frequently see close races or a narrow Democratic win in state and federal elections. In the 2016 general election, the county strongly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 65.60% of the vote, a somewhat narrower win than elsewhere in Southeast Missouri.<ref>http://www.pemiscotcounty.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2016GENERALELECTION.pdf</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Pemiscot 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 Pemiscot County with 84.73% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county defeated the measure with 52.41% 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 with 63.73% support.<ref>https://enr.sos.mo.gov/CountyResults.aspx</ref> These results generally align with the rest of Southeast Missouri.
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