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TommyC1776
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« on: April 15, 2007, 10:30:02 PM »
Has Detroit, MI always voted for the Dems?
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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2007, 10:34:24 PM »
I doubt it's always voted for the Democrats.  Teddy Roosevelt won Wayne County with 69.38% of the vote in 1904 - there's no way in hell that was done without winning Detroit.
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2007, 10:57:49 PM »
Quote from: SoFA Gabu on April 15, 2007, 10:34:24 PM
I doubt it's always voted for the Democrats.  Teddy Roosevelt won Wayne County with 69.38% of the vote in 1904 - there's no way in hell that was done without winning Detroit.

o. ok.  well did the win it alot or no?
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2007, 04:47:15 AM »
Quote from: KucinichforPrez on April 15, 2007, 10:57:49 PM
Quote from: SoFA Gabu on April 15, 2007, 10:34:24 PM
I doubt it's always voted for the Democrats.  Teddy Roosevelt won Wayne County with 69.38% of the vote in 1904 - there's no way in hell that was done without winning Detroit.

o. ok.  well did the win it alot or no?

I think it's evident just looking at results from Wayne County, and considering that Detroit is more Democratic than Wayne County at large, that the Democrats have indeed won Detroit a whole lot.
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« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2007, 06:27:28 AM »
Does anyone remember 9iron? I remember him making a huge deal about finding sometime in history that the city of Detroit went for a Republican. So I guess it's happened at least once.
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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2007, 03:48:48 PM »
Quote from: RRB on April 16, 2007, 10:58:10 AM
Years ago, Wayne county  was very much like the east coast.  Lots of wealthy people from the era of the industrial revolution who controlled a population of imigrants who largely did not vote.  This combined with the fact that the republican party of yesterday was a more liberal/libertarian party, lent MI to be a solidly republican state.  It was also republican because the South was Dem - that sounds simplistic, but true.



Hard to believe now, but the Republicans used to be the high tariff party. This got them support from all the Industrial areas that are now Rust Belt unionized Dems.
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« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2007, 04:16:28 PM »
Wayne County, 1924

Coolidge (R) 80 percent
LaFollette (P) 12 percent
Davis (D) 7 percent

... yeah, the Democrats have lost Detroit in the past.
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« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2007, 01:57:39 PM »
Wayne County,1912:

Roosevelt 39%
Taft 30%
Wilson 26%
Debs 4%

Would the Dems have done anything here?  jw.
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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2007, 03:51:33 AM »
Detroit was over 80% of the county for most of the 1st half of the 20th century:

1900 82%
1910 88
1920 84
1930 83
1940 81
1950 76
1960 63
1970 57
1980 51
1990 49
2000 46
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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2007, 10:33:47 PM »
Quote from: TommyC1776 on April 15, 2007, 10:30:02 PM
Has Detroit, MI always voted for the Dems?
Ever since we let blacks vote, yes.
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