By spring last year, all the banks were facing a string of county court cases brought by customers.
In Western New York, for example, Republicans have won a string of county executive races in some of the same areas that are pivotal in this fall's Senate races.
Both goalkeepers made a string of impressive saves, with County's Michael Fraser denying Gregory Tade a late winner with a world-class stop.
The other consistent source of Democratic presidential votes is the Arkansas Delta, a string of rural, predominately African-American counties in the east running along the Mississippi River.
A 21-year-old college student accused in a string of pipe bombings told a county officer he wanted to make a smiley face pattern with his targets, investigators said today.
In 2013, after a string of other scandals, a Cocke County sheriff's deputy resigned and then pleaded guilty to charges of drug dealing following an FBI investigation.
The corridor between Austin and San Antonio also grew dramatically, as did the string of counties along the Rio Grande, anchored by the cities of Brownsville and McAllen near the Gulf Coast.
In the south, blue-collar workers like those who built the Union Pacific Railroad favored Democrats, and the southern string of counties in Wyoming leaned left.
Chung grew up in Chinatown, New York but moved to the safer Bucks County after a string of three muggings in five years.
