Not from there but I went to college there. The only voting residents are college profs and the generationally poor who choose to stay for whatever reason. There was also a 60s leftover hippie population there when I was in school. Makes for a strange voting base.
OU grad here also. I remember going to the grocery store in Athens and seeing locals use food stamps for their groceries, then peeling off a few twenties for cigarettes, beer, etc. Poor life choices, indeed.