<P> As a result, Missouri's accuracy rate for the last 29 presidential elections is now 89.66% . Ohio has about the same record of voting for the winning candidate in missing three times; it has voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1896 except for 1944 and 1960, with no Republican ever winning the White House without Ohio . Nevada has been carried by the winner in every presidential election since 1912, except just twice in 1976 and 2016 . Also, New Mexico has voted for the winner of every presidential election from its statehood in 1912 except in the 1976, 2000 and 2016 elections . </P> <P> One of the more important national phenomena that has not had the same impact in Missouri as in the rest of the country is the influx of immigrants, particularly Latinos . Analysts and journalists in recent times have pointed to states like Ohio, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and California as more accurate political and cultural bellwethers . </P> <P> Also, the 21st century Missouri electorate is much less urbanized than that of the 20th century . In 1900, the combined population of St. Louis (575,238) and Kansas City (163,752) was 24% of the population of Missouri (3,106,665), while by 1950 the combined population of St. Louis (856,796) and Kansas City (456,622) had actually grown to 33% of the population of Missouri (3,954,653). But shortly thereafter the population of St. Louis began a sharp decline, while that of Kansas City remained nearly static, so that the state is now much more dominated by rural, suburban, and small - city voters, who are generally more conservative: by 2000 the combined populations of St. Louis (348,189) and Kansas City (441,545) had declined to 14% of the population of Missouri (5,595,211). This shift, however, is a direct product of the small geographic size of St. Louis City, which is nearly unique among major urban centers in having locked its boundaries in 1876 . When the population of St. Louis County is included in these figures, Missouri's ratio of major metropolitan residents to rural residents closely matches the nation as a whole . </P> <P> Slate columnist Chris Suellentrop has said that the state now "isn't so much a bellwether as it is a weathervane: It doesn't swing the country, the country swings it ..." and that Missouri is a better indicator of whether a trend is mainstream than of what the next new trend will be . </P>

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