1924, John Davis and the KKK?

[TommyC1776]

How come John Davis got the Southern vote when he opposed the KKK?

[True Democrat]

How come John Davis got the Southern vote when he opposed the KKK?

He wasn't a Republican or a Catholic.

[TommyC1776]

How come John Davis got the Southern vote when he opposed the KKK?

He wasn't a Republican or a Catholic.

o. ok.  so the South still supported a candidate who was against the KKK?  How could that be?  That doesn't sound right.

[Lincoln Republican]

How come John Davis got the Southern vote when he opposed the KKK?

He wasn't a Republican or a Catholic.

o. ok.  so the South still supported a candidate who was against the KKK?  How could that be?  That doesn't sound right.

In those days, the south supported the Democrats, overwhelmingly.  Go back and look at the election results from 1900 onwards, even before 1900.  The south was not called the "Solid South" for the Democrats for nothing.  Look at the overwhelming margins most southern states gave to the Democratic nominees, even when the Republicans had a popular candidate who was cleaning up everywhere else.

No Democratic candidate was FOR the KKK.  That's ridiculous.

[TommyC1776]

How come John Davis got the Southern vote when he opposed the KKK?

He wasn't a Republican or a Catholic.

o. ok.  so the South still supported a candidate who was against the KKK?  How could that be?  That doesn't sound right.

In those days, the south supported the Democrats, overwhelmingly.  Go back and look at the election results from 1900 onwards, even before 1900.  The south was not called the "Solid South" for the Democrats for nothing.  Look at the overwhelming margins most southern states gave to the Democratic nominees, even when the Republicans had a popular candidate who was cleaning up everywhere else.

No Democratic candidate was FOR the KKK.  That's ridiculous.

o. ok.  idk that no Dem candidate liked the KKK.  I know they always had the South behind them.  But Truman was the first President to make the margin of victories in the South smaller right bc of his Civil Rights platform?  I have to say, that Grant got a few Southern states and so did Hayes. (who wasn't that well known.......as far as I know.)

[True Democrat]

How come John Davis got the Southern vote when he opposed the KKK?

He wasn't a Republican or a Catholic.

o. ok.  so the South still supported a candidate who was against the KKK?  How could that be?  That doesn't sound right.

In those days, the south supported the Democrats, overwhelmingly.  Go back and look at the election results from 1900 onwards, even before 1900.  The south was not called the "Solid South" for the Democrats for nothing.  Look at the overwhelming margins most southern states gave to the Democratic nominees, even when the Republicans had a popular candidate who was cleaning up everywhere else.

No Democratic candidate was FOR the KKK.  That's ridiculous.

o. ok.  idk that no Dem candidate liked the KKK.  I know they always had the South behind them.  But Truman was the first President to make the margin of victories in the South smaller right bc of his Civil Rights platform?  I have to say, that Grant got a few Southern states and so did Hayes. (who wasn't that well known.......as far as I know.)

Actually, you can see that the collapse of the Democrats in the South in 1948 can actually be traced back to 1944.  Roosevelt's votes declined a lot.  Also, look at SC and TX.  Things that are similar to unpledged electors got a large amount of the vote.

[gorkay]

The only reason that Grant and Hayes got southern electoral votes was that they were in states that were still under Reconstruction and had severely curtailed voting rights for many citizens.