It illustrates just why the party, and especially its Conservative wing began to look to the South and West. The only way the Party could get a majority was to win 2/3rds of the seats in the Northeast and that was unlikely with a Conservative GOP in a New Deal Era.
another classic SCNY post with the same hackery. Guy sounds like Jay Cost almost.
Who is SCNY?
Are you saying Conservatives didn't start to target the South and west in the 1950's? Elections like 1958 and 1948 illustrated that with a unionized region as its base, the GOP would only win in the biggest landslide and then would lose it the next election once those union voters turned out. They were also disadvantaged in even years and even when Ike was reelected, they failed to reclaim the majority in either House.
