Why did these states vote for

[H. Ross Peron]

Louisiana Eisenhower in 1956

Louisiana's usually been slightly less overwhelmingly partisan than the other Deep South states and Eisenhower was a fairly popular war hero candidate.

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Catholic vote? Not sure about this.

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Catholic and black vote.

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Suburban white liberal vote along with working-class Catholic support in the vote and black vote in the latter.

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Lots of white liberals even before the era of Latte liberalism along with a strong labour tradition.

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Plenty of Catholic voters in Maine.

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The white vote had started to transition to the GOP and the blacks had just regained their access to the franchise.

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Possibly socially conservative Catholic Democrats and moderate suburbanites voting for Bush on the basis of National Security and gay marriage?