Original sentence: Martin County is a long-standing Republican stronghold which has not supported a Democrat for the White House since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944
Edited sentence: Martin County, a little removed from the left-leaning, more urban counties to the immediate south (Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach), is a long-standing Republican stronghold which has not supported a Democrat for the White House since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944, and, unlike the counties to the south, retains somewhat of its Southern culture and tinge, though it has long since departed from supporting Conservative Democrats both Federally, Statewide and Locally