TDAS04
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« on: March 11, 2013, 08:02:08 PM » |
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« edited: March 11, 2013, 09:15:15 PM by TDAS04 »
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I've read that the old-stock Hispanic population of of Northern New Mexico became heavily Democratic in the 1930s. It's hard to find information about them before then.
It appears that they were mostly Republican. In the elections of 1912-1924, the counties in Northern NM where these Hispanics have lived for a few centuries supported the Republican presidential nominee; the more Anglo-Saxon counties of "Little Texas" in the Southeast voted for the Democratic candidate.
Why was this? My only guess is that they were rivals with the mostly Democratic Texans. It is interesting that NM appears to have been an unusual state politically at the time; it had mostly-Democratic WASPS and majority-Republican Catholic ethnics. A reverse Massachusetts.
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