mianfei
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« on: November 27, 2017, 02:09:37 AM » |
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According to Kevin Phillips' 1969 The Emerging Republican Majority, FDR lost support in 1944 almost entirely due to the strong isolationist sentiment in rural areas, most especially Appalachia. Phillips says that FDR's loss of support in 1944 was exactly analogous to the isolationist voting that gave Tennessee, Missouri and (partially) Maryland to Harding in 1920.
As you can see from this map, FDR lost very heavily in the mountain parts of the Outer South and the Border. The Missouri anomaly reflects, of course, the presence of Missouri native Harry Truman on the Democratic ticket, replacing Henry Wallace, and that the state has more German influence than the other Outer South or Border States. It has occurred to me, actually, that Dewey was a poor candidate for those Border States because he was so Northeastern, so the trend due to isolationism could have been even stronger than it was.
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