 About 20.3 percent of families and 22.7 percent of the population were below the poverty line, including 30.1 percent of those under age 18 and 23.3 percent of those age 65 or over.The white majority of Lee County wavered between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates throughout much of the twentieth century.Since the late twentieth century, the county has become more consistently Republican, voting overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016.