1924: Coolidge and Catholic voters

[TDAS04]

Did Calvin Coolidge carry the Catholic vote in 1924? 

In 1920, not many Catholics voted for Democratic nominee Cox (Germans and Irish upset over Wilson's WWI policies).  In 1928, an overwhelming majority voted for one of their own, Al Smith over Herbert Hoover.  As for 1924, Davis (and La Follette) likely performed better than Cox among Catholic voters, but it still seems likely that Coolidge won a plurality of Catholics.

When broken down by ethnicity, Coolidge likely carried Italians.  Not sure about Irish, though it may be a stretch to say he carried the Irish Catholic vote.

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During his time in Massachusetts, Coolidge successfully appealed to immigrant groups, allowing him to win voters that were usually Democrats.  He was popular with Irish and Italian voters in the state.

[mianfei]

I have read in The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 that La Follette very likely carried the German Catholic vote. That book says 61 percent of his vote went to Al Smith in 1928. That would be about 10 percent of the total 1924 vote, or nearly one quarter of the total Smith vote of 1928. Given that Smith must have been voted for by numerous loyal Southern non-Catholics, La Follette might have pressed Coolidge fairly close for the Catholic vote as a whole.

The problem with this is that in areas of French Catholicism La Follette had little support. Although he did better than I thought previously in the urban Northeast with its numerous Italian and Irish migrants, Coolidge was so dominant there that he must have won most of these voters even if the majority of La Follette supporters in the urban Northeast were Catholic.