How Curtis avoided much backlash?

[wnwnwn]

I know Charles Curtis himself was an uncontroversial mainstream republican for his time. The problem is that he was partly native and that wasn't a secret back then. Native americans living in reserves only got the right to vote in 1924.

I know that he won elections in Kansas, but the issue to me is how republicans won the Upper South despite that.
I suppose they saw Curtis as a conservative who wouldn't try to change things, but they believed the rumours on what Smith would do if he was elected.

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

My guess is that native Americans were usually seen as "noble savages" and as such not hated.

[TDAS04]

It seems that there was never a “one-drop” rule when it came to a person having some Native American blood, unlike with black African blood. Historically, in the US, if you were black at all—even just one-eighth—you were black, period, and whites were solidly racist against you. People never seemed to care that much if a political candidate had a bit of indigenous in them.

And don’t forget that Al Smith followed the Pope.

[wnwnwn]

It seems that there was never a “one-drop” rule when it came to a person having some Native American blood, unlike with black African blood. Historically, in the US, if you were black at all—even just one-eighth—you were black, period, and whites were solidly racist against you. People never seemed to care that much if a political candidate had a bit of indigenous in them.

And don’t forget that Al Smith followed the Pope.

Yes, the ideas was that with Smith as president, the Pope would de facto rule the USA. There was also the issue of prohibition.
Something that is notorious is how the KKK supported Hoover. It's not like they were tolerant of native americans.

[Alben Barkley]

Historically, in the US, if you were black at all—even just one-eighth—you were black, period, and whites were solidly racist against you.

Homer Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson was white passing and specifically told the train conductor he was "one eighth black," otherwise he probably never would have been noticed. The whole case was set up to prove the absurdity of segregation, but of course our wonderful infallible Supreme Overlords ruled "separate but equal" which became the law of the land for the next 60 years anyway.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

It seems that there was never a “one-drop” rule when it came to a person having some Native American blood, unlike with black African blood. Historically, in the US, if you were black at all—even just one-eighth—you were black, period, and whites were solidly racist against you. People never seemed to care that much if a political candidate had a bit of indigenous in them.

And don’t forget that Al Smith followed the Pope.

Yes, the ideas was that with Smith as president, the Pope would de facto rule the USA. There was also the issue of prohibition.
Something that is notorious is how the KKK supported Hoover. It's not like they were tolerant of native americans.

They were even less tolerant of Catholics, it seems.

[Schiff for Senate]

It seems that there was never a “one-drop” rule when it came to a person having some Native American blood, unlike with black African blood. Historically, in the US, if you were black at all—even just one-eighth—you were black, period, and whites were solidly racist against you. People never seemed to care that much if a political candidate had a bit of indigenous in them.

And don’t forget that Al Smith followed the Pope.

Yes, the ideas was that with Smith as president, the Pope would de facto rule the USA. There was also the issue of prohibition.
Something that is notorious is how the KKK supported Hoover. It's not like they were tolerant of native americans.

They were even less tolerant of Catholics, it seems.

Indeed. While the First/Third iterations of the Klan were focused on racism against African-Americans, the Second iteration (1920s) was instead more focused on virulent anti-Catholicism. It's one of the reasons that the base of support for the Klan shifted northward - in the 1860s/1870s, it was Deep South states like Georgia and Lousiana that got associated with the Klan; in the 1920s, one of the biggest Klan strongholds was instead Indiana.