Clinton's strength with
conservative white voters in the
Appalachia region, including
Coal Country, had clearly regressed since 2008; she had beaten
Barack Obama 65–29 in Kentucky eight years earlier, and only beat rival Bernie Sanders 47–46 in 2016. She ran strongly in
Louisville, where the
African American population is highest, but lost many of the
Eastern Kentucky Coalfield counties in the state to Bernie Sanders, who had won a large victory in neighboring
West Virginia the week prior. Sanders also won many counties in the
Jackson Purchase area. Notably, in 2012, almost all of the Sanders counties voted for the "Uncommitted" ballot option in a protest vote against Obama. ==References==