Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee
North Carolina Yankee
Moderators
Atlas Institution
Posts: 54,123
|
|
« on: November 03, 2019, 12:29:13 PM » |
|
As was pointed out, both were integral parts of the New Deal Coalition because of mining and farming. Both also had animosity to the NE Business elite, and Democratic rhetoric at the time often pointed to a new colonial dynamic with which the same elite regarded the South and west.
If they diverged it was because half of Iowa moved to Socal and large populations from the rest of the Midwest moved into California and Arizona after World War II. Colorado already was voting with Iowa and the Plains (see 1940).
The shift of the Mormon Church towards the Republicans in the mid 20th century also had an impact.
Likewise in the modern era you have 1. a Religious realignment in the 1990's and 2. a racial realignment of sorts in the late 2000s and 2010s and thus the SW is Democratic and getting more so, while the Appalachian areas have become Republican and solidly so.
|