What is the political geography of the South?

[darklordoftech]

I wonder how much of a role the GOP abandoning protectionism after Smoot-Hawley played in breaking the Solid South. The Solid South hated tariffs as much as anything else.

[darklordoftech]

I would argue that "tariffs" were pretty much done as a partisan issue in the U.S. by the end of World War II or so.

I was suggesting that this is exactly what allowed the GOP to make inroads into the South. When the GOP was the party of tariffs, even the most "Northern" Democrat could keep the South in line by saying "the GOP will raise your tariffs", but after WWII, this no longer worked.