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« on: January 15, 2005, 07:28:37 PM »

what happened in this place?

1952 results:

Eisenhower: 92.97%
Stevenson: 7.03%

yet in 1952 Stevenson won Louisiana. In 1956 his numbers doubled, Eisenhower still got over 80% with the Dixiecrat slate of electors geting about 4%.

In 1948 Strom Thurmond won it with 93.62%.

Prior to that it was a pretty typical solid south county. Over 80% for FDR. So why did it swing so suddenly so quickly when the rest of the south and Louisiana didn't?
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2005, 10:15:53 PM »

what happened in this place?

1952 results:

Eisenhower: 92.97%
Stevenson: 7.03%

yet in 1952 Stevenson won Louisiana. In 1956 his numbers doubled, Eisenhower still got over 80% with the Dixiecrat slate of electors geting about 4%.

In 1948 Strom Thurmond won it with 93.62%.

Prior to that it was a pretty typical solid south county. Over 80% for FDR. So why did it swing so suddenly so quickly when the rest of the south and Louisiana didn't?

Probably HHH's civil rights speech at the 1948 Convention.
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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2005, 12:35:06 AM »

Plaquemines Parish was the personal stronghold of Dixiecrat baron Leander Perez. Perez delivered a massive vote to whoever he happened to favor. The 1952 result was so Republican because Perez supported Eisenhower. Plaquemines became wealthy through oil and gas deposits, and the GOP supported local control of those assets.

Perez was not above producing a little vote fraud for his candidate, but mainly he delivered the parish through his personal power. Plaquemines was a closed society- later, during the civil rights movement, reporters considered it a "dangerous" place to ask questions in.
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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2005, 07:48:37 AM »

That would seem to be a very good explanation.
What are the 60's results like.
(Don't bother, I'll check myself.)
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« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2005, 09:10:32 AM »

1960
Unpledged 65
Kennedy (who won the state) 21
Nixon 14

1964
Goldwater (who narrowly won the state) 86
Johnson 14

1968
Wallace 74
Humphrey 13
Nixon 11

1972
Nixon 83
McGovern 13

and even 1976
Ford 69
Carter (who narrowly won the state) 30

Only in 1980 did Plaquemines reenter the mainstream:
Reagan 55
Carter 43
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« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2005, 09:31:05 AM »

64 and 68 aren't really that odd - except in that there are no similar results in *Southern* Louisiana. 60, 72, and 76 are records.
The place is pretty isolated geographically.
And here's a little plug-in for the "Best Dem and Rep results" thread, WHICH NOW INCLUDES LOUISIANA DATA!
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« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2005, 12:41:00 PM »

I live in St. Bernard Parish which is between Plaquemaines and New Orleans and one of our main roads is Judge Perez Dr. It was named for Leander Perez but a few years ago was renamed after a different Perez because Leander was racist. Interesting piece of history.
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2005, 05:20:41 AM »

There's a street in Frankfurt called Friedensstraße, Peace Street.
It was originally named, in the 1870's, for the Peace of Frankfurt, the peace treaty that ended the 1870/1 war between Prussia and France that lead to the formation of the German Reich.
Since 1945, the street is officially named for world peace in general.
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