Three counties – Skåne, Stockholm, and Uppsala; all governed by center-right majorities – have implemented three to six times as many choice plans as the fourth largest county (Östergötland, also a center-right majority county).
Outside of its major cities, the state is almost exclusively conservative (save for the rural, black-majority counties in the northeast and the liberal enclave of Asheville).
The Hispanic-majority counties were primarily concentrated in the South and in the West, including 51 in Texas, 12 in New Mexico, and 9 in California.
By ruling that Florida's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, must include the results of manual recounts then underway in three Democratic-majority counties, the state's Supreme Court agreed with the Gore campaign that Florida law issues contradictory instructions about how to handle election disputes.
Although the majority of counties are governed by a board of supervisors, the home-rule privilege allows larger counties to entrust management to county commissioners.
White deaths exceeded births in a majority of counties, including Los Angeles, the most populous.
"Republicans are still very strong in white majority rural counties," Mr. Guillory said.
Mr. McCain, in fact, carried the majority of counties in Illinois in 2008 despite losing the state by 25 percentage points to Barack Obama.
His win was fairly sweeping demographically — somewhat less so geographically (he actually lost a majority of counties) — but overall about at the level of a candidate who might expect to win about 40 of the 50 states.
The number of early voting days has been reduced in a vast majority of counties, but the number of overall hours has remained the same, as each voting day has been lengthened.
Trump is perhaps least popular in the region's majority Muslim counties, Malaysia and Indonesia, where there was widespread anger on social media and in newspapers when he announced his plan to ban Muslims entering the US.
