sentences:  About 10.30% of families and 13.40% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.80% of those under age 18 and 15.20% of those age 65 or over.Nash County was originally a typically overwhelmingly Democratic "Solid South" county with a large and completely disfranchised black population.Although it gave a plurality to Populist candidate James B. Weaver in 1892, it did not like Sampson County or Alabama's Chilton County subsequently turn to the Republican Party.