https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2006-11-15/420920/

Poor Homecoming for Perry

By Lee Nichols, November 15, 2006, 1:19pm, Newsdesk

Oh, how did we miss this one? Thanks to the Houston Chronicle for pointing out that while Gov. Rick Perry won 215 of Texas' 254 counties, the county of his birth – Haskell – wasn't one of them. Haskell County results: Bell 32.68%, Perry 30.61%, Strayhorn 27.48%, Friedman 8.86%.