 Out of the total people living in poverty, 23.00% are under the age of 18 and 31.60% are 65 or older.King County was once a strongly Democratic county even by Solid South standards.In 1948, 95.85 percent of voters supported Harry S. Truman, in 1960 76.9 percent of voters chose John F. Kennedy and in 1964, 84.1 percent of voters supported Lyndon Johnson.