TDAS04
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« on: August 26, 2014, 03:41:04 PM » |
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Interestingly, the last time Oklahoma voted more Democratic than the nation as a whole was 1956. (Did they like Stevenson?). Then it swung sharply against JFK, who lost the state by 18 points while Stevenson had lost it by only 10 four years earlier. Kennedy's poor performance must have been due to Oklahoma being a particularly anti-Papist state, (Al Smith got brutally crushed there in 1928).
I'm guessing the cultural issues that occurred later in the 1960s helped to make it difficult for the state to vote to more Democratic than the nation again, but I'm sure Mechaman will say more about it later.
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