 About 15.90% of families and 19.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.20% of those under age 18 and 21.80% of those age 65 or over.Much like the state and the rest of the Deep South, Geneva County was locked for the Democrats before 1964, except when powerful anti-Catholic and Prohibitionist feelings directed against “wet” Democratic nominee Al Smith allowed Herbert Hoover to win in 1928 by forty-eight votes.However, ever since 1980, Geneva County has been a Republican stronghold.