sentences:  About 7.00% of families and 10.10% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.30% of people under age 18 and 12.10% of those age 65 or over.Davidson is a powerfully Republican county in presidential elections.No Democratic presidential nominee has ever carried the county since Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Thomas E. Dewey by a mere ten votes out of almost nineteen thousand in 1944, and indeed the last Democrat to garner one-third of the county’s ballots has been Jimmy Carter in 1980.