Voting history of the four counties won by Debs

[Redefeatbush04]

YEAR     LAKE,MN  BELTRAMI, MN  CRAWFORD, KS   BURKE,ND

1912      DEBS           DEBS               DEBS             DEBS
1916    WILSON       WILSON          WILSON        WILSON
1920    HARDING      HARDING        HARDING        HARDING
1924   LAFOLLETTE LAFOLLETTE  LAFOLLETTE   LAFOLLETTE
1928    HOOVER        HOOVER          HOOVER        HOOVER
1932      HOOVER        FDR                  FDR               FDR
1936        FDR             FDR                  FDR               FDR
1940        FDR             FDR                  FDR             WILKIE
1944       FDR              FDR                 DEWEY        DEWEY
1948     TRUMAN       TRUMAN           TRUMAN        DEWEY
1952   STEVENSON EISENHOWEREISENHOWEREISENHOWER
1956   STEVENSON EISENHOWEREISENHOWEREISENHOWER
1960     KENNEDY    KENNEDY           NIXON           NIXON
1964     JOHNSON    JOHNSON         JOHNSON      JOHNSON
1968     HUMPHREY   HUMPHREY       NIXON            NIXON
1972     MCGOVERN   NIXON             NIXON            NIXON
1976       CARTER      CARTER           CARTER            FORD
1980       CARTER      CARTER           REAGAN          REAGAN
1983      MONDALE   MONDALE        REAGAN          REAGAN
1988      DUKAKIS     DUKAKIS        DUKAKIS          BUSH
1992      CLINTON     CLINTON        CLINTON         BUSH
1996      CLINTON     CLINTON        CLINTON         DOLE
2000        GORE          BUSH              BUSH             BUSH
2004       KERRY          KERRY             BUSH            BUSH

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Blatent plug alert:

The Eugene Debs Project

Not sure when I'll get round to finishing it...

[J-Mann]

Blatent plug alert:

The Eugene Debs Project

Not sure when I'll get round to finishing it...

Interesting...

Also interesting that Crawford Co. Kansas has gone back and forth between Democrats and Republicans so much since 1912.  That's quite a conservative area of the state; I suppose Pittsburg contributes quite a bit to the Dems.

[skybridge]

I don't really know what you're trying to prove with those county statistics but Debs was an interesting guy. He ran five times without winning a single elector. That's not very significant, but considering one-timers like J. Strom Thurmond and George Wallace won a small share of electors (especially when considering what they stood for) far more recently than Debs, gives it an eerie feel. Perhaps Debs wouldn't have been jailed if he had supported Southern segregationists?

[Redefeatbush04]

I don't really know what you're trying to prove with those county statistics but Debs was an interesting guy. He ran five times without winning a single elector. That's not very significant, but considering one-timers like J. Strom Thurmond and George Wallace won a small share of electors (especially when considering what they stood for) far more recently than Debs, gives it an eerie feel. Perhaps Debs wouldn't have been jailed if he had supported Southern segregationists?

I don't know what I was trying to prove either. I got a connection error and was pissed that I could not do anything so I picked a random thing to get statistics on while waiting for the forum to work. Thought I might see a pattern, and up until 1944 their is quite a neat pattern. All voted for Lafollette too!!!! Mondale also has a disproportionate amount of support.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

since then Beltrami county has been split, Lake of the Woods county was part of it when it voted for Debs.

Ironic that the last time Lake county voted for a Republican was a landslide year, for Hoover in 1932. It was also the only county in Minnesota to vote for Hoover. Of course it only voted for Hoover because Normal Thomas split the vote.

Another fun fact: St. Louis county, which contains Duluth, is next to Lake. Prior to 1932 it had never voted for a Democrat. It has voted for the Democrat in every single election after 1932.

[minionofmidas]

since then Beltrami county has been split, Lake of the Woods county was part of it when it voted for Debs.

Ironic that the last time Lake county voted for a Republican was a landslide year, for Hoover in 1932. It was also the only county in Minnesota to vote for Hoover. Of course it only voted for Hoover because Normal Thomas split the vote.

Another fun fact: St. Louis county, which contains Duluth, is next to Lake. Prior to 1932 it had never voted for a Democrat. It has voted for the Democrat in every single election after 1932.

So Northern MN was a mixed Republican-Socialist area with very little Dem support back then...cool.