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« on: January 10, 2015, 11:39:01 PM » |
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« edited: January 10, 2015, 11:40:50 PM by freepcrusher »
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Midwest/Border
Illinois Republicans = anything north of the 40th parallel save for Chicago and Rock Island (non Cook County Chicago was pretty hardcore R back then). Will County was marginal as the county was dominated by the industrial city of Joliet.
Democrats = Chicago proper, Rock Island County, Madison and St Clair counties
Marginal = anything south of the 40th parallel not in Metro East, Will County as mentioned above.
Indiana Republicans = WASP, non industrial areas of Central, Northern and NE Indiana (Halleck district and some of those counties like Steuben or Kosciusko (and the counties surrounding Indianapolis which were rural back then)
Democrats = Lake, St Joseph and the occasional county in southern Indiana.
Marginal = most of southern Indiana. Indianapolis usually voted a few points more republican than the state interestingly enough
Iowa Republicans = anything not mentioned below usually went republican though it varied by hue. Even back then, the case was true that the closer one got to Nebraska, the more republican it was (though the correlation wasn't as strong)
Democrats = occasional catholic county like Carroll, Dubuque and sometimes even Audubon. Also Polk and Wapello counties
Kansas
Republicans = anywhere not mentioned below. Looking at old maps, it seemed that the rural WASP counties in northern Kansas were the most republican. Johnson County also hasn't voted D for president since 1916 (and was just starting to influence state politics by this point).
Democrats = Wyandotte, occasional catholic county (Hays) and the occasional "southern" influenced county in SE Kansas
Marginal = to some extent Wichita
Kentucky
Republicans = those clump of counties that used to make up the old Siler/Hall district and the counties close to Cincinnati
Democrats = the Jackson purchase area. Also there were a stretch of counties in old maps stretching between Louisville, Lexington and Cincinnati all the way to coal country (look at the 1956 map for instance).
Marginal = west central Kentucky (Natcher district) plus Jefferson County
Michigan
Republicans = Dutch areas of Western Michigan (Ottawa and Kent), the WASP areas on the Indiana border and areas with a little of both (Allegan). Also, northern LP (Cederberg district).
Democrats = Macomb, Wayne, western UP
Marginal = Monroe, Washtenaw, sometimes Oakland and some non-WASP/Dutch areas of Western Michigan, eastern UP, Gennessee (which went for Nixon in 1960)
Minnesota
Republicans = parts of southern and SW Minnesota and the occasional German lutheran area (like Carver) or those counties that went for Goldwater
Democrats = St Paul, Iron Range, Anoka
Marginal = NW Minnesota (the original 7th district), German catholic areas (historically volatile). Minneapolis was only marginally dem back then.
Missouri Republicans = German and pro-Union areas that tended to follow west of St Louis on I-44 to the Oklahoma border
Democrats = the old Clarence Cannon district, the areas south of St Louis on the Mississippi (lead belt/bootheel), St Louis proper and KC proper
Marginal = some of Central Missouri (think Moulder, Randall, Ichord districts), rural northern Missouri (the Hull seat) and St Louis County
Nebraska Republicans = anywhere not mentioned below
Democrats = occasional non-WASP county (there's that one czech county near Lincoln for instance)
Marginal = Omaha
North Dakota North Dakota is interesting since it doesn't have a polarizing geography like other states do. The general rule of thumb is that the closer you get to Minnesota, the more dem it gets but there were plenty of exceptions
Ohio
Republicans = non-Cincinnati Hamilton, Columbus after WWI, and much of central and western Ohio. Also the non=industrial, WASP heavy county of Geauga
Democrats = occasional German county in western Ohio, Toledo, Cuyahoga, Akron, Youngstown/Warren, the old 18th, occasional southern influenced county in the scioto valley
Marginal = Cincinnati proper, Dayton, Lorain, the James Polk district (6th)
Oklahoma Republicans = areas with a more Great Plains/Kansas feel to them, also Tulsa Democrats = (anything east of hwy 75) marginal = SW Oklahoma and other parts of Central Oklahoma
South Dakota Republicans = much of the state, especially west of the Missouri
Democrats = occasional catholic county
Marginal = occasional county in eastern SD
West Virginia general rule of thumb is that the further you get from I-77, the more republican it gets.
Wisconsin
Republicans = Fox River Valley (rural Racine and Kenosha, Walworth, the WOW and a few other counties like Green Lake). Also, SW Wisconsin (Thomson district) was pretty strongly republican then and voted like NW Illinois.
Democrats = Racine and Kenosha proper, Milwaukee, Madison, some of the areas in the old 10th district (not sure how Alvin O'Konski survived so many tough elections)
Marginal = occasional catholic county that would vote for a democrat for president (parts of the old 6th and 8th districts).
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