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

[brucejoel99]

Nearly half of the Wallace/Taylor ticket's votes were obtained in NY state (thereby tipping the state & its 47 electoral votes from Truman to Dewey) because he was also running on the American Labor Party ballot line there, so NY state by default.

As for who he appealed to, disgruntled northern liberals.

[brucejoel99]

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.

Very interesting! I had no idea there was such a large Latino community in Tampa at the time. It was a really outstanding bastion of radicalism indeed.

It wasn't just at the time, the Hispanic/Latino community is still quite prominent in Tampa (being 1/4th of the population), & especially so in Ybor City (comprising more than 2/5ths of the population) & West Tampa (more than 1/2 of the population).