William Jasper, a Revolutionary War hero from South Carolina.

During the defense of Fort Moultrie in 1776, the staff of the American flag was shot away.

[4] As of the 2010 United States census, there were 9,698 people, 3,940 households, and 2,800 families living in the county.

Opposition to the "Yankee" Republican Party and that party's Civil War meant that Jasper County voted solidly Democratic until isolationist sentiment drove its voters to Warren G. Harding in 1920.

Since the New Deal, the county has shown a steady trend away from the Democratic Party due to major shifts in that party's views – initially on economic policies and since the 1990s on social issues.

It appears to be a statistical change in the Upland South, that Barack Obama in 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 did far worse than any previous Democrat candidates for president.