How I Cope: A List

Even though I live in Appalachia, and I expected much of the region to vote Republican in the Presidential election, I am still appalled that he won. My method of coping was to find the county in each state most and least likely to vote Republican for President. Not satisfied with that, I picked out the fifty counties (and in some cases cities independent of counties) least likely to have voted Republican for President in 2016. Here they are, alphabetical by state. The city name in parentheses is the county seat, or an explanation of why there isn't one.

Alabama
1. Greene County ( Eutaw)
2. Macon County (Tuskeegee)
Alaska
in a separate category because regions were not broken out, although the state as a whole voted Republican.
I picked Nome as most likely not to vote Republican, because the Democratic legislator was unopposed and there were few write-ins for others.
California
3. Alameda County (Oakland)
4. Marin County (San Rafael)
5. San Francisco (City and County contiguous)
6. San Mateo County (Redwood City)
7. Santa Clara County (San José)
8. Santa Cruz County (Santa Cruz)
Colorado
9. Boulder County (Boulder)
10. Denver (City and County contiguous)
District of Columbia
11. Washington (contiguous with the District)
Georgia
12. Clayton County (Jonesboro)
13. DeKalb County (Decatur, county includes part of Atlanta)
Illinois
14. Cook County (Chicago)
Louisiana
15. Orleans Parish (New Orleans)
Maryland
16. Baltimore (independent city) 
17. Montgomery County (Rockville)
18. Prince George's County (Upper Marlboro)
Massachusetts
19. Dukes County (Martha's Vineyard)
20. Suffolk County (Boston)
Mississippi
21. Claiborne County (Port Gibson)
22. Holmes County (Lexington)
23. Jefferson County (Fayette)
24. Noxubee County (Macon)
Missouri
25. St. Louis (independent city)
New Jersey
26. Essex County (Newark)
New Mexico
27. San Miguel County (Las Vegas)
28. Santa Fé County (Santa Fé)
29. Taos County (Taos)
New York
30. Bronx County (The Bronx, New York City)
31. Kings County (Brooklyn, New York City)
32. New York County (Manhattan, New York City)
North Carolina
33. Durham County (Durham)
North Dakota 
34. Sioux County (Ft. Yates, coterminous with Standing Rock reservation) 
Oregon
35. Multnomah County (Portland)
Pennsylvania
36. Philadelphia (coterminous city and county)
South Carolina
37. Allendale County (Allendale)
South Dakota
38. Oglala-Lakota County (no county seat, coterminous with Native American reservations)
Texas
39. Jim Hogg County (Hebbronville)
40. Maverick County (Eagle Pass)
41. Starr County (Rio Grande City)
42. Zavala County (Crystal City)
Virginia
43. Alexandria (independent city)
44. Arlington County (no county seat as it is the size of a small city in area)
45. Charlottesville (independent city)
46. Falls Church (independent city)
47. Petersburg (independent city)
48. Richmond (independent city)
Washington
49. King County (Seattle)
Wisconsin
50. Menominee County (Keshena)
 
Some of these are big diverse cities (BDCs), some are poor Black counties (PBCs) some are Native American reservations (NARs), some Mexican border towns (MBTs), and a few are liberal college towns (LCTs). Many of the smaller ones have colorful histories, worth exploring.

In my mind, I'm planning a trip to visit all fifty of these places across the country. It's not likely to happen.

My source for this was the state election maps compiled by Politico.