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Originally Posted by Crawford
I'm talking about voter share, not whether there are militant nuts. Appalachia has extreme Trump voter share, higher than non-Appalachian rural America.
Also, and this is probably a minor factor, but the Amish are heavy Trumpy, and I believe Ohio is #1 or #2 in state population of Amish.
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The Amish play an extremely minor factor in presidential elections in states where they have significant populations i.e. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, etc. I cannot speak to Ohio's numbers and we do not have 2020 numbers yet, but for example in Pennsylvania in the 2016 presidential election only 1,016 Amish voted. Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by more than 44,000 votes. Or to put it another way, over 5.9 million votes were cast in the 2016 presidential election in Pennsylvania. Out of those 5.9 million votes only 1,016 were cast by Amish voters. Now, Amish voters normally turn out in higher numbers in
local elections, but even then their average turnout is between 5 and 7 percent. But to your point of Amish voters skewing toward Trump, in Pennsylvania 90 percent of registered Amish voters are Republicans.
Amish participation in the American political system has always been pretty low and the article I linked to you explains the reasons behind this phenomenon.
https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2020/...er/6044235002/
Finally, Ohio has the second largest population of Amish in the United States behind Pennsylvania, but Holmes County Ohio has the highest concentration of Amish in the country. In fact, Holmes County as of 2020 might be the only county??? in the U.S. where a dialect of German is the majority language.