Counties in which George H. W. Bush got a higher vote share in 1988 than Reagan in 1984

ALABAMA
Barbour
Etowah
Lee
Limestone
Macon
Madison
Marshall
Montgomery
Russell
Shelby

ARKANSAS
Chicot
Crittenden
Ouachita

FLORIDA
Duval (203,979)
Gadsden
Hamilton
Jefferson
Lafayette

GEORGIA
Appling
Atkinson
Bacon
Banks
Barrow
Bartow
Berrien
Bibb
Bleckley
Brooks
Bryan
Bulloch
Burke
Butts
Camden
Carroll
Catoosa
Charlton
Chatham
Chattahoochee
Chattooga
Cherokee
Clay
Clinch
Colquitt
Columbia
Cook
Coweta
Crisp
Dawson
Decatur
Dodge
Dooly
Elbert
Evans
Forsyth
Franklin
Glascock
Gordon
Habersham
Hall
Hancock
Harris
Hart
Henry
Houston
Jackson
Jeff Davis
Jefferson
Jenkins
Johnson
Jones
Lamar
Laurens
Lee
Lincoln
Lumpkin
Macon
Madison
Marion
McDuffie
Mitchell
Monroe
Morgan
Murray
Muscogee
Newton
Paulding
Peach
Pike
Polk
Seminole
Stephens
Stewart
Sumter
Talbot
Taliaferro
Taylor
Telfair
Terrell
Thomas
Tift
Toombs
Treutlen
Troup
Twiggs
Union
Upson
Walker
Washington
Webster
White
Whitfield
Wilcox
Wilkes
Worth

INDIANA
Adams
Brown
Crawford
DeKalb
Huntington
Marion (315,095)
Whitley

KENTUCKY
Adair
Crittenden
Lyon
Taylor
Todd

MARYLAND
Calvert
Charles

MINNESOTA
Lake
St Louis County (103,237)

MISSISSIPPI
Attala
Leflore
Madison
Perry
Scott
Warren

NEBRASKA
Thomas

NORTH CAROLINA
Cherokee
Clay

SOUTH CAROLINA
Aiken
Barnwell
Calhoun
Edgefield
Georgetown
Sumter

TENNESSEE
Bedford
Benton
Campbell
Cannon
Carroll
Chester
Clay
Coffee
Davidson (188,946)
Decatur
Dickson
Dyer
Fayette
Franklin
Grundy
Hardeman
Hardin
Haywood
Henderson
Hickman
Houston
Humphreys
Jackson
Lake
Lincoln
Macon
Madison
Maury
McNairy
Monroe
Montgomery
Moore
Overton
Putnam
Robertson
Rutherford
Shelby (308,988)
Smith
Stewart
Sumner
Tipton
Trousdale
Van Buren
Wayne
White
Williamson
Wilson

UTAH
Daggett

VIRGINIA
Caroline
Charles City County
Cumberland
Goochland
King George
Suffolk City
Sussex

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These are the states in which there was at least one such county in 1988. Daggett County, Utah cast 412 votes in 1988, and Thomas County, Nebraska, 466. Cherokee, NC cast 7,145 votes, and Clay, NC, 3,480. Calvert, MD cast 17,397 votes, and Charles, MD, 32,764. Charles County is across the Potomac River from King George County, VA, which itself borders Caroline County, VA. Charles County has a small border with Calvert County, both of which are in southern Maryland. Indiana was Dan Quayle's home state, and Minnesota, Walter Mondale's. (In Dan Quayle's home county of Huntington, IN, Bush Sr's 74.9% in 1988 remains the all-time high of any presidential nominee going back to at least 1888; George W. Bush got 74.3% in 2004.)

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