1920 Manistee County, MI: A Hughes-Cox County? Or Clerical Error?

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I was just reading through the geography of presidential elections and remembered this thread and was going to cite that as a source but see that it already was cited. What’s weird to me is that it also has a much higher percentage of German ancestry than English which makes this even less likely. I suppose it’s possible that it could actually have flipped for reasons that are lost to the ether. Maybe James Cox had relatives that lived there or simply held a big campaign rally. Maybe there was a lot of local progressive sentiment which led to the more conservative then Hughes Harding being a turnoff. Maybe the local Democrats did a better job of mobilizing new women voters then the Republicans. Who knows?

There probably are low level weird electoral trends going on under the radar that just never get written about. I’m not saying it’s impossible that it was an error but I just wouldn’t assume it.