Northern Democratic counties that became Republican counties
soniquemd21921:
Long before the "Southern realignment" there were several Democratic-since-the-Civil-War counties in northern states that became Republican in the 20's and 30's and stayed Republican. Some of these counties were at one time the most Democratic counties in their state:
Schoharie, New York (before 1920 this was almost always the lone upstate county to go Democratic; it stayed Republican afterwards and voted against FDR all four times)
Pike, Pennsylvania (never voted Republican before 1920, by 1948 the county that gave Teddy Roosevelt only 36% of the vote in 1904 gave Dewey 70%)
Sussex, New Jersey (and neighboring Hunterdon and Warren, which were as Democratic as Hudson was before the 1920's; since 1920 the only Democrat to carry Sussex was LBJ in 1964)
Holmes, Ohio (largely Amish county - it was almost always the most Democratic county in OH before the 30's; it's been heavily Republican since the 50's) + most of the German counties in western Ohio, particularly Auglaize, Defiance and Putnam
Franklin, Adams and Wells, Indiana
several southern Illinois counties, especially Clinton and Effingham.
Ozaukee, Wisconsin (heavily German)
Carroll, Maryland (since 1920 the only Democrats to win here were FDR in 1932 and LBJ in 1964; before that it usually always went Democratic)
What changed in these counties?
Oldiesfreak1854:
I mourn for the Southern realignment in 1980.
soniquemd21921:
I hope I'm not the only one that wishes Vermont still voted like it did in 1936 and not 2008.
Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario):
Quote from: soniquemd21921 on September 26, 2012, 08:36:34 PM
I hope I'm not the only one that wishes Vermont still voted like it did in 1936 and not 2008.
You can have Vermont and Maine. I just wish the rest of the country voted like it did in 1936 and not 2010.
I spent the winter writing songs about getting better:
Pike, PA and Sussex, NJ are thanks to commuters, Pike is actually considered part of the NYC metropolitan area and I have heard of people commuting from Pennsylvania to NYC (though I suspect most commuters probably go to somewhere else in the NYC area.) Ozaukee, WI is obviously due to Milwaukee suburbia takeover, though if it flipped prior to that it could be the revolt against Democrats that happened in most heavily German areas after WWI. Carroll, MD is another obvious case of exurban takeover, from Baltimore.
Schoharie, NY is interesting though, I wonder what the story is there. There must've been some type of local machine, maybe a DA opted to finally put some party boss behind bars and the machine never really recovered.
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