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Title: 1928 Election Trend map Post by: OSR stands with Israel on January 09, 2018, 11:12:45 PM ()
Title: Re: 1928 Election Trend map Post by: RFayette on January 10, 2018, 12:32:44 AM The color scheme seems off for MA and NY given the numbers. Shouldn't NY be the one colored in more darkly?
Title: Re: 1928 Election Trend map Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on January 10, 2018, 12:58:07 AM Catholic versus Anti-Catholic dichotomy.
A good number of non-Irish Catholics were propping up the Republicans in many Northern states as the Dems still controlled the southern portions of PA-ILL and even some parts of upstate NY until the 1920's. The Non-Yankee protestants as Kevin Phillips calls them. Thus the Republicans were heavily depending on their own big city machines in Chicago and Philly, as well as anti-Irish coalitions including Italians, French Canadians and Jewish people in other cities to supplement their Yankee base, which was becoming dwarfed by other groups. When a Catholic nominee ran, who emphasized his working class and immigrant roots, you thus had massive trends towards the Dems in the cities, slightly countered by anti-Catholic trends among those Non-Yankee protestants in those Northern states. |