New Orleans results, pre-1960

[TDAS04]

Does anyone have information on how the city of New Orleans (same boundaries as Orleans Parish) voted in presidential elections prior to 1960?  I'm especially curious about 1948.  IIRC, I read somewhere that Thurmond won a plurality, but what were the percentages for the three candidates? I'd also like to know how Democratic New Orleans was during the 1920s.

Wikipedia has presidential elections results for almost every county and parish, but since the article for Orleans Parish is the same as the article for New Orleans, the information is missing.

[H. Ross Peron]

According to the 1951 Almanac of American Politics which has results for American cities with more than 100,000 people.

Strom Thurmond (States' Rights)-41.3%
Harry Truman (Democratic)-34.5%
Thomas Dewey (Republican)-24.2%

[RI]

1912: 80 D, 3 R, 15 I
1916: 91 D, 7 R
1920: 65 D, 35 R
1924: 79 D, 16 R, 4 I
1928: 79 D, 21 R
1932: 94 D, 6 R
1936: 91 D, 9 R
1940: 86 D, 14 R
1944: 82 D, 18 R
1948: 34 D, 24 R, 41 I
1952: 51 D, 49 R
1956: 39 D, 57 R, 4 I

[TDAS04]

Thanks.

[TDAS04]

1920 really stands out.  What would have been driving that? 

Democrats collapsed in cities with lots of ethnics that year, because German- and Irish-Americans were upset with Wilson's foreign policy.  NOLA had far more ethnics than other Southern cities, and was like a Northern city in that sense.

I'm surprised 1928 wasn't considerably more Democratic than 1924, due to Smith's Catholic appeal.

[Del Tachi]

1920 really stands out.  What would have been driving that? 

Democrats collapsed in cities with lots of ethnics that year, because German- and Irish-Americans were upset with Wilson's foreign policy.  NOLA had far more ethnics than other Southern cities, and was like a Northern city in that sense.

I'm surprised 1928 wasn't considerably more Democratic than 1924, due to Smith's Catholic appeal.

The 16% of New Orleans that was Republican in 1924 was more than likely the more well-off, Protestant Whites. 

[ReaganLimbaugh]

According to the 1951 Almanac of American Politics which has results for American cities with more than 100,000 people.

Strom Thurmond (States' Rights)-41.3%
Harry Truman (Democratic)-34.5%
Thomas Dewey (Republican)-24.2%

I would love to see data for other cities, such as Miami and Atlanta.  Please post.