Big colored maps of voting by unpopulated counties has never much impressed me.
43 Tuolumne County 54,008
44 Calaveras County 44,742
45 Siskiyou County 44,154
46 Amador County 37,035
47 Lassen County 33,658
48 Del Norte County 28,290
49 Glenn County 27,992
50 Colusa County 21,411
51 Plumas County 19,399
52 Inyo County 18,495
53 Mariposa County 17,905
54 Mono County 14,348
55 Trinity County 13,526
56 Modoc County 9,327
57 Sierra County 3,086
58 Alpine County 1,129
Source: U.S. Census
That's what I said my my leading sentences. See my later post to see the trend all the way back to 1976.
-PJ