Describe a Henry Wallace 1948/ Dwight Eisenhower 1952 voter (user search)
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King of Kensington
Junior Chimp
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« on: November 25, 2019, 12:36:05 AM »

Likely a voter in New York State. If I am not mistaken, it was Wallace's best state in 1948, and the substantial vote share which he drew in New York City hurt Truman, allowing for Dewey to narrowly carry the state. Eisenhower won the votes of many New Deal Democrats and Northeastern progressives in both 1952 and 1956, explaining his strong results throughout much of the Northeast and Midwest in those two elections. In particular, New York was to give him more than 60% of the vote in 1956; he was the last Republican presidential nominee to receive so high a percentage of the vote in the state.

Most of Henry Wallace's votes came from Jews in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Lower East Side.

Maybe a Jewish socialist turned capitalist who moved from the Bronx to Scarsdale? 

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King of Kensington
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2019, 07:03:51 PM »

Dewey was pretty much your standard WASP Yankee Republican.  Eisenhower had a much wider appeal - I believe he won the white Catholic vote and did respectably (around 40%) with Jewish voters (though it was affluent, suburban Jews that were more GOP in the 1950s - the affluent liberal vs. outer borough conservative phenomenon took off in the late 1960s I believe).
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