Compare and contrast 1896 and the last five elections (2000-2016)
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« on: June 15, 2017, 03:16:14 PM »

This must be a significant mirror image. Or five.
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« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2017, 03:20:18 PM »

For what it is worth, Felton and Fowler's Best, Worst, and Most Unusual (c. 1976) called William Jennings Bryan the "worst" unsuccessful Presidential candidate (of either party!), saying that if he had won, "the entire nation would have been crucified on a cross of cornstarch".
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2017, 03:21:44 PM »

More coincidence, honestly.  The West supported Democrats with crazy margins that evaporated almost immediately, so let's not act like they had so much in common with a New York City or Alabama Democrat.  The Northeast was a much Whiter, much more Protestant and much more conservative region than it is today, so seeing it as "switching sides" has much more to do with the region's IDEOLOGY changing than the parties changing, though obviously both played a factor.  The South was a hugely agrarian region where Blacks couldn't vote, and even though everyone's favorite myth is how LBJ waved his magic wand and the dirty redneck became the GOP's most loyal voter in an instant in 1964, that South is not the same as the one that finally favored Republicans, let alone the one of today.

I think drawing parallels like this is pointless and leads people to make assumptions about politics that are irresponsible.  Every one of those states is so ridiculously different now than it was then.
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