Why was Michigan so Republican in the 1920s?

[Indy Texas]

Great map!

Oh, here is a more accurate map of the reach of the Yankee diaspora, which also happens to be the zone that is littered even to this day, with small liberal arts colleges (many of which being of very high quality), almost all of which were founded by Yankees. New Englanders had the highest literacy rate on the planet back then, and valued education.

Yes, and that's why states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin have had such great education systems.  On top of the New England settlers, the subsequent German and Scandinavian immigrants also came from education-valuing cultures.

I'm guessing that also has something to do with why the Upper Midwest states were among the first to abolish or severely restrict capital punishment.

[they don't love you like i love you]

LOL that map. Apparently I'm in the same region as Maine but by driving to Iowa or west to some rural counties in North Dakota I can enter the same region as PHILADELPHIA.

That map makes as much sense as Political Compass charts.

[Thunderbird is the word]

LOL that map. Apparently I'm in the same region as Maine but by driving to Iowa or west to some rural counties in North Dakota I can enter the same region as PHILADELPHIA.

That map makes as much sense as Political Compass charts.

It's interesting to me how oddly specific some of the boundaries are, like the ones in Iowa and Arkansas in particular. I wonder if that suggests ethnic migratory patterns to some extent.

[mianfei]

Yankees had more influence on the political culture of Michigan than any other midwestern state.

Notice the much lower support for La Follette in the Lower Peninsula than in the Upper Peninsula – which in fact culturally is more akin to the other Upper Midwestern states.