“Southern Dems”

[Georg Ebner]

How the Senators were rated 1980 by certain agencies:

WildWest:

PacificCoast:

MidWest:

NorthEast:

South:

[Georg Ebner]

Once the tariff was removed as a legitimate policy tool, urban GOP machines began to collapse, because that was what kept the workers under the same roof. At the same time the GOP lost the workers, they also lost the African American urban vote to the New Deal coalition as well.

Not immediately, though - famously the AfroAmericans were the only group, that continued to prefer the GOP 1932.