Michigan in the 1920's
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soniquemd21921
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« on: June 30, 2013, 08:44:31 PM »
« edited: June 30, 2013, 08:49:32 PM by soniquemd21921 »

While Michigan had always been a strongly Republican state since the founding of the GOP, in the three presidential elections of the '20s it was insanely Republican:

1920 - 72.76%
1924 - 75.37% (only 10.51% for La Follette!)
1928 - 70.36%

Those three elections remain the three highest percentages any candidate has ever received in Michigan. The state was never that Republican before 1920, and thanks to the New Deal in 1932 it would never come anywhere close to being that Republican again. Even in Wayne County, Coolidge got 80% of the vote in 1924, and in 1928 - with Al Smith certainly appealing to the huge Polish population in Detroit - Hoover still got 63% of the vote!

Why was Michigan this Republican during the '20s?
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« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2013, 06:53:34 PM »

The Democrats put up 3 unelectable people in those elections. Wilson only lost it by 8% in 1916 and FDR won it in 1932. I don't know what else it could be.
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« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2013, 11:08:37 PM »

Was Detroit less unionized in the 1920s? Or did the GOP manage to appeal to a significant number of blue collar workers in those elections?
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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2013, 11:40:04 PM »

Michigan was settled by New England Yankees moving west, unlike southern Ohio-IN-IL.  Auto workers started coming in the 1920s from Europe and the South, but did not flip urban areas until 1932, and Republicans counter flipped rural US House seats and state offices starting in 1934.

In 1930, Republicans won every one of the 13 Michigan US House seats, and still won 7 of 17 in 1932, including a suburban Detroit seat that did not go D until Gary Peters in 2006.  One of four new Detroit seats in 1932 was won by John Dingell's father, with young Dingell taking the baton in a 1955 special.

In 1890, Michigan elected a tri-Democratic Lansing, which created an electoral votes by CD scheme similar to what Rs proposed in 2013.  It resulted in 5 or 14 EVS for Grover Cleveland in 1892 even though Harrison carried the state.  When Rs came back in 1894, they repealed the statute.
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