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Question: Who would you have voted for?
#1
Ulysses Grant (Republican)
 
#2
Horace Greeley (Democratic)
 
#3
Chalres O'Conor (Straight-Out Democrat)
 
#4
Other/Write-in
 
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Total Voters: 26

Author Topic: 1872 Presidential Election  (Read 1064 times)
ElectionsGuy
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« on: July 30, 2014, 07:13:48 AM »

1808: 50.0% George Clinton
1816: 69.2% James Monroe
1820: 60.0% James Monroe
1828: 48.0% John Q. Adams
1844: 50.0% James Birney
1896: 32.5% John Palmer
1964: 49.2% Lyndon Johnson


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1872

Ulysses Grant

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ElectionsGuy
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2014, 12:52:16 PM »


His inclusion of "at the time" leads me to think his South Carolina residency is factored in as well. Not that such changes much, but, y'know.

The funny thing about that is SC was Grant's second best state, besides Vermont. He got 76% in SC, mostly due to the black majority that voted almost unanimously Grant, as well as disenfranchisement of some southern whites. I'm guessing though that southern whites voted mostly Greeley.
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ElectionsGuy
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2014, 01:29:21 PM »

Poor white-black cooperation in Southern Republican parties was still very high until the counterrevolution of the mid 1870s, so there's really no reason to assume that, at least white yeoman, wouldn't be voting for Grant, too. The Gentry had basically lost it's right to vote (as well it should have), but it would be interesting to find out how the white vote did split, given the empowerment of white yeoman and black freedmen by the radical Republican parties of the South at the time.

I did say mostly Greeley, not all. Looking at the numbers, and how black the state was at the time (59%), suggests that there was a lot of white people voting republican too. However, those same white people would also be disenfranchised later along with blacks.
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