About 5,000 people live in Eaton, Colo., about 20 miles north of Greeley.
Drive north out of Greeley on Weld County Road 39 and you get a snapshot of Northern Colorado’s culture. The road is flanked by farms and oil wells and old prairie cemeteries. Trump campaign signs still stand proudly.
The last time Weld County voted for a Democrat for president was LBJ in 1964. There is still political diversity in Weld, but in the decades since, the subsequent shale boom and all the oil jobs it brought with it have driven the county even farther to the right.
But that’s just one part of the picture.