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Tue Jan 14, 2014, 11:32 PM

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This kind of isolation and geographic stasis usually doesn't lend itself to support for the progressive policies of the Democratic Party. Yet Elliott's voter registration numbers are staggering: 4,691 of the county's registered voters are Democrats, while just 227 are Republicans, according to the Kentucky Board of Elections.

"Our Democratic principles and how we're registered to vote was handed down from generation to generation," explained Rocky Adkins, who has served as Elliott's representative in the statehouse in Frankfort, Ky., since 1987.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/solid-south-democratic-party-kentucky_n_3151539.html

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