Where did Henry Wallace do best in 1948, and who did he appeal to?

[Podgy the Bear]

Henry Wallace and the 1948 election are interesting political subjects, and this has been discussed before on Atlas.  Wallace didn't come close to winning any county nationwide, but he received just under 20% of the vote in New York City and that was enough to tip the vote in NY State to Dewey.

He received 38,000 votes in OH and another 7,000 would have given Dewey the state.  Another 18,000 would have given CA to Dewey (Wallace received 190,000 votes in CA).  Wallace didn't get on the ballot in IL, and if he did, it's probable he would have taken at least 35,000 votes there from Truman, enough  to lose the state.  

[Podgy the Bear]

One interesting thing is that one of his best cities appears to have been Tampa which surprises me as to my knowledge Tampa does not have a particularly high Jewish population. Yet he crossed 9% in Hillsborough County.

The Internet (and Google) is amazing.  I googled: "Why did Henry Wallace do so well in Tampa in 1948?" and came up with this:

https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1373&context=sunlandtribune

The Latin community was quite prominent in the Tampa areas of Ybor City and West Tampa in 1948.  Wallace won seven precincts in those areas that year.  A tiny bastion of radicalism in an otherwise conservative region.