sentences:  In 1964 the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater, whose hostility to the Yankee establishment and strongly conservative policies were sufficient to leave many traditional Republicans to stay home or even to vote for Lyndon Johnson, who lost the county only by 404 votes out of over twenty-five thousand.The county returned to solid Republican voting for the next twenty years, but, ironically when its most famous native came within 3,818 votes of sweeping all fifty states, actually voted marginally more Democratic than the nation at-large in 1984, repeated this in 1988 and voted Democratic for the first time in its history by giving a plurality to Bill Clinton in 1992.The county would give its first-ever Democratic majority to president Clinton in 1996 and continue to vote Democratic until 2016, when concern over employment declines in the “Rust Belt“ saw Donald Trump become the first Republican to carry the county since George H. W. Bush.