Tennessee
Voted Lean Democratic from 1872-1916:
Partisan Voting Record:
1872: Horace Greeley: 52.16%, 4.32% margin
1876: Samuel J. Tilden: 59.79%, 19.58% margin
1880: Winfield Hancock: 53.26%, 9% margin
1884: Grover S. Cleveland: 51.45%, 3.71% margin
1888: Grover S. Cleveland: 52.26%, 6.5% margin
1892: Grover S. Cleveland: 51.36%, 13.53% margin
1896: William J. Bryan: 52.09%, 5.76% margin
1900: William J. Bryan: 53.03%, 8.08% margin
1904: Alton Parker: 54.23%, 10.83% margin
1908: William J. Bryan: 52.73%, 6.86% margin
1912: Woodrow Wilson: 52.8%, 28.8% margin Landslide Exception
1916: Woodrow Wilson: 56.31%, 13.61% margin
Surprisingly lean state for it's time and location.
tbf, East Tennessee (which remained loyal to the Union) was still a Republican bastion at the time.
"Is." Though the reasons and margins have shifted, East Tennessee has in fact been a consistently safe Republican area since the Civil War.
