trump more republicans staying home? give us 10678 researches. a little comparison to birmingham. let s go back to birmingham, that county almost 13, almost 14% of the electorate in alabama. how did hillary clinton, for example, do in the last presidential contest there. election here obviously.tial - you see the same dynamic. this is what s called the black belt and it s called that for the top soil, deep, black, rich agricultural top soil. it is also a democratic area and where you have a significant african-american population. the base, any stepping stone for any democrat to be competitive has to be here. 14% of the population. birmingham, the suburbs. hillary clinton, 52%. that s a good margin, but it s not good enough. if you go back, you see this throughout. let s go back to the 2012 presidential election. obama 53% here. that is because don t think of it just as birmingham central city, it s because of the suburbs. the democrats win in the city and the suburbs around is where