 Given national Democratic support for the civil rights struggle and the Voting Rights Act and other legislation, especially by President Lyndon B. Johnson, many blacks have supported the party and its candidates since regaining the power to exercise the franchise.White voters in the county have trended toward the Republican presidential candidates since the 1980s, but none has received more than 42 percent of the vote in any of the last five Presidential elections.The county is part of Arkansas's 1st congressional district.