I'm guessing you've never been anywhere near these counties in KY. I grew up in OH and just as blacks vote for Odumbo many whites will vote for a white guy. The poor whites in KY are those who live in the sticks, ex coal miners and lost of poorly educated people. If they voted for Romney they were basically voting AGAINST Odumbo.
Look at Detroit MI .. bankrupt. Run by black mayors for a long, long time going back to Coleman Young in the '70s. The city was predominantly black and look at it now. The blacks kept voting for their handouts and kept their fellow blacks running the show. Kwame Kilpatrick was another great mayor, huh?
Why look at Detroit when I can look at Conservative hellholes like Missisippi and Alabama?
Hell, let's look at the Con miracle of Texas.
50th in percentage of population with health insurance (2010)
50th in percentage of children insured (2009)
50th in percentage of women receiving early prenatal care (2010)
45th in rate of infectious diseases (2010)
44th in percentage of children in poverty (2010)
42nd in per capita health care funding (2010)
40th in overall health (2010)
36th in high school graduation rate (2010)
35th in crime (2010)
35th in percentage of children immunized (2010)
34th in rate of occupational fatalities (2010)
30th in percentage of people with college degree (2008)
Texas also ranks:
1st in amount of recognized carcinogens released into the air (2002)
4th highest in release of toxic chemicals into the environment (2002)
8th highest in percentage of people below poverty level (2008)
13 th highest in obesity (2010)