anson county, north carolina, 50/50, plurality african-american, very close to 50%. the interesting thing over time is the margins for trump and biden, down 13 point in 2016. what happened? there is something about, is the rural/urban divide stronger than the racial divide? i think that is the question. on the republican side. light red to dark red goes this way. we ve got delaware county our lightest red in ohio. sort of the home of college educator republicans that are moving over. lucerne, next door to scranton the old union democrats now voting republican. chattooga home of evangelical whites. light shall medium, dark here. the delaware county has been moving the most this decade. fascinating. you are talking about a country that went for romney by 23 points and went for trump by 17
don t see jobs. they don t see opportunity. many are fleeing the county. when you talk to older black voters they are also worried about the next generation coming up behind them. a terrific introduction to why we re in anson county and again this is something we ve seen particularly in quite a few rural african-american counties throughout the south. antonia, thank you. let me move over to the other side of things. dasha burns is if delaware county, ohio. this is the lightest red of the three red counties that we re show casing for the midterm cycle. in many ways i believe you spent a lot of time in kent county, grand rapids, delaware. slightly more republican than kent county is but i am guessing it looks quite familiar, doesn t it? yeah, chuck. he am hearing echoes of similar sentiments here. when you say it is the lightest red, very recently, this has been a long time gop stronghold. we re talking well over a
reporter. sir, good to see you. good to be here. we have seven counties. let s show you. i think we ll use the board but use it a little bit from afar. we have seven counties and loosely three counties light blue to dark blew, three counties light red to dark red and one truly pure in the middle. from west to east here you got the three democratic counties. washoe a county, very closely competitive county but carried it in the 21st century. anson county, an african-american majority county, rural. a 50/50 county racially. can the rural african-american vote turn out and the dark blue county is progressives, college student, dane county. that tapestry there, what fascinates you about the three? i think obviously we ve