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« on: September 03, 2020, 10:06:52 PM » |
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In the party system that was in place at that time, German Catholics voted primarily as Germans rather than Catholics.
Regarding the Hoover-Smith race, by the late 1920s, the movement to repeal Prohibition was picking up steam, and German Catholics were pro-repeal, which pushed many of them into the Democratic camp. The GOP had also started going in a more nativist direction for the 1928 campaign (in part to try to make inroads in the South, which they succeeded in doing) which turned off anyone who wasn't a British Isles Protestant.
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