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The comical thing about this article is it gives you the strong impression that every county with a low Democrat voting rate has three things in common--

Lots of white crackers.
Low poverty rates.
Less educated than the national average.

Then I got to Idaho, which reads:

Idaho
Some 93.3% of Madison County residents who cast a ballot in the 2012 presidential elections voted for Romney, the largest share of any county in Idaho and of any county in the country. About 35.8% of county residents lived in poverty from 2009 through 2013, more than double the national poverty rate of 15.4% over the same period. The county’s population is also nearly exclusively white, with 95.2% of its 37,542 residents identifying solely as white. Unlike most predominantly Republican counties, Madison County residents were relatively well educated. In the five years prior to 2013, 33.7% of county residents had at least a bachelor’s degree compared with 28.8% of all adults nationwide.

So there you have it. All predominantly Republican counties are filled with rich crackers who are poorly educated. Except for Madison County, Idaho, which is filled with poor crackers who are also well educated. Imagine that! Nevermind that the 95.2% population of crackers is lower than the state as a whole and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the state.