 In the early 1890s, white Southern Democrats passed laws to disenfranchise black voters from engaging in the political process, a process which ended by the 1960s, and blacks began to favor voting for Democrats and southern whites favored the Republicans.Since 1892, Democrats have carried the county in all but two presidential elections, when American Independent Party candidate George Wallace won it in 1968 and Republican Richard Nixon won it in 1972, the latter whom carried every county in Arkansas.No Republican since George H. W. Bush in 1988 has won over 40% of the county's vote.