Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Obama's top 10 counties in 2012 were all majority-minority

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' Counties: Here is a pretty interesting McNugget of data from a guy that our readers know and love: Greg Giroux crunched the numbers and has come up with Obama's top 10 performing counties in the November elections. Casual observers of politics might be shocked to see that five of the top ten counties (including numero uno on the list: Shannon County, South Dakota) came from states that threw their electoral votes to Mitt Romney. Behold, the power of racial voting patterns: Shannon County is largely comprised of the Pine Ridge Reservation, and three of the counties in Alabama and Mississippi were African-American majority counties. The lone contribution from Texas was Latino-majority Starr County.

All ten, in fact, were counties that were comprised of "majority-minority" populations. Which raises a fun trivia topic for dedicated DKE fans: Which county in America was Obama's best performing majority-Anglo county? Feel free to toss your answer in the comments! (Steve Singiser)