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Tarrant Is A Bright-Red Anomaly: A Big, Urban County That Votes Republican

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Donald Trump was propelled to the presidency thanks in part to Tarrant County. Fort Worth and its suburbs make up the only metropolitan county in Texas that still votes Republican for president. And it’s one of just two of the nation’s 20 largest urban counties that favored Trump. So why is Tarrant County so reliably red?