 Being in South Texas, Jim Wells County is part of the oldest Democratic stronghold in the entire United States – a region that has consistently voted for Democrats since the days of Woodrow Wilson.The Jim Wells County Democratic Party has maintained control of the county despite massive demographic changes due to Civil Rights, the collapse of Jim Crow and poll taxes, and mass immigration from Mexico.The only Republicans to win the county since it was created have been Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 and Richard Nixon in his 1972 landslide.