Rainbow City, AL is a small town of approximately 10,500 people located in northeastern Alabama. Politically, Rainbow City is a conservative stronghold, with the majority of its residents voting for Republican candidates in local and statewide elections. Most recently, the citizens of Rainbow City overwhelmingly voted for Republican candidate Bob Smith in the 2020 general election. Bob Smith's platform focused on fiscal responsibility and limited government spending, two issues that are very important to Rainbow City's conservative voters. As such, he was able to successfully win over much of the community's support during his campaign. As a result of this support, Bob Smith will likely continue to occupy his position as representative for 35906 Rainbow City for years to come.
The political climate in Zip 35906 (Rainbow City, AL) is strongly conservative.
Etowah County, AL is very conservative. In Etowah County, AL 24.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Etowah county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.4% to 24.2%.
Etowah county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 35906 (Rainbow City, AL) is strongly conservative.
Rainbow City, Alabama is strongly conservative.
Etowah County, Alabama is very conservative.
Gadsden Metro Area is very conservative.
Alabama is strongly conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Rainbow City, Alabama: r R R R R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 35906 (Rainbow City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 86 contributions totaling $11,562 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $134 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 162 contributions totaling $32,327 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $200 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)