Is the Over-the-Mountain region traditionally R?
It has been. Not so much now for this election. Jones is from affluent Mtn. Brook and very well connected. I said to one person from there that Jones should get a great deal of votes from there. The native Brookite responded, “Yes, except for those who really know him.”
There are signs all over the OTM suburbs for Jones, unlike anything I have ever seen before.
JeffCo is dominated by Birmingham which is 75% black and overwhelmingly Democrat. The O-t-M communities E and SE of BHM are Homewood, Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills, and Hoover. They are overwhelmingly white, but definitely suburban and full of soccer moms. In past general elections they have generally gone R.
As I previously wrote, I think I am seeing a new trend emerge in this region where the younger generations, X-Y-Millenials, are going D thanks to the indoctrination of our public schools. Critical Theory - Cultural Marxism - Political Correctness - Diversity - Multi-Culturalism is evident everywhere.