Catholic vote in the south historically

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I was reading an article on Jstor about the 1928 election in Arkansas entitled and how the vote for Hoover overlapped with an anti-evolution amendment that was on the ballot simultaneously and I thought this was an interesting paragraph about the small local Catholic population in the area: "Father McBarron did not follow the example of his evangelical brethren. An editorial in the "Fayetteville Daily Democrat" claimed that McBarron did not "believe in mixing temporal and spiritual things or politics and religion, and so he doesn't even dabble in politics to the extent of casting a vote." The same editorial alleged that many Tonitown Catholics wore Hoover buttons and "few if any are taking very much interest in the coming campaign."

Obviously this is very anecdotal but it made me wonder if southern Catholics as a religious minority were more likely to vote Republican in the south where Democrats were the party of the majority in the same way that in the north they would have voted Democrat when Republicans were the party of the "old stock" majority. I guess i'm thinking specifically about the smaller number of Catholic immigrants in the south (and perhaps this might apply to Jews as well) since Louisiana always was a Catholic majority state.