Maybe it's due to the early wave of white flight which began shortly after WWII
Well, that's what happened.
Ike got 11k more votes than Dewey in Bucks and 30k mores votes in Montgomery.
Not really, as 1952 had a huge surge in turnout too. Philly had an increase of more than 100,000 voters in 1952 and Stevenson's vote increase in Bucks and Montgomery too.
Yeah, it definitely seems like a substantial portion of voters in Philly were Roosevelt ‘44-Dewey ‘48 voters. Why, I have no idea.
