Greene County Democrats gather on Jackson Day to start drawing a road map for the future

Cindy Allen is the kind of voter local Democrats have struggled to attract.

Allen, of Fair Grove, runs an online Christian ministry and supports sensible gun ownership. Her family has lived in the Ozarks for almost 200 years, she said, and she was a Democrat until college, when her anti-abortion led her to become a Republican.

But the invasion of Iraq marked a turning point for her, and after the election of President Donald Trump in November, she said she was ready to have her "coming out" moment as a reborn Democrat. She initially wouldn't disclose who she voted for last November but later confided that she picked Hillary Clinton.

Allen attended the Greene County Democrats' 94th annual Jackson Day on Saturday at the Oasis Convention Center, where people whose politics lean left gathered to meet each other and plan how to realize their goal of "turning Greene blue."

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