Catholic voters in 1952 and 1956

[darklordoftech]

Who did they vote for?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I presume Eisenhower. He won a landslide.

[Agonized-Statism]

https://cara.georgetown.edu/CARAServices/FRStats/PresidentialVoteOnly.pdf

Looks like they voted Stevenson both times, but 1956 is a little less clear.

[RINO Tom]

According to the link at the bottom of this post, this is how Catholics voted in those elections:

1952: 56% Stevenson, 44% Eisenhower
1956: 51% Stevenson, 49% Eisenhower

For reference, Kennedy won them 78%-22% in 1960, and LBJ still won them 76%-24% in 1964.  Obviously, the PV in general moved extremely Democratic, so Catholics "trended Republican," but that's an impressive non-dropoff after the first Catholic President, if you ask me.

Catholics don't get enough attention as a super stubborn Democratic voting bloc before the White flight era really took off.

[Intell]

White Catholics are the latino catholics of today, one day they will break heavily for republicans and then be magically white, and asians will also be de-facto white too probably and we're back to a majority white nation.

[TDAS04]

It's possible they voted for Ike in 1956, but it was close either way.

Anyway, I'm very curious about percentages of the Catholic vote in 1924.  I would think that Coolidge won, but only with a plurality.

[RINO Tom]

It's possible they voted for Ike in 1956, but it was close either way.

Anyway, I'm very curious about percentages of the Catholic vote in 1924.  I would think that Coolidge won, but only with a plurality.

I would actually be surprised if Coolidge won them outright, but I’m sure it was close.

[Calthrina950]

It's possible they voted for Ike in 1956, but it was close either way.

Anyway, I'm very curious about percentages of the Catholic vote in 1924.  I would think that Coolidge won, but only with a plurality.

I would actually be surprised if Coolidge won them outright, but I’m sure it was close.

Warren Harding almost certainly did in 1920.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

According to the link at the bottom of this post, this is how Catholics voted in those elections:

1952: 56% Stevenson, 44% Eisenhower
1956: 51% Stevenson, 49% Eisenhower

For reference, Kennedy won them 78%-22% in 1960, and LBJ still won them 76%-24% in 1964.  Obviously, the PV in general moved extremely Democratic, so Catholics "trended Republican," but that's an impressive non-dropoff after the first Catholic President, if you ask me.

Catholics don't get enough attention as a super stubborn Democratic voting bloc before the White flight era really took off.

White ethnics in the big northern cities were a huge part of the New Deal coalition. I think that by the 1980's, Catholics had mostly been subsumed into 'mainstream' WASP society.

[RINO Tom]

It's possible they voted for Ike in 1956, but it was close either way.

Anyway, I'm very curious about percentages of the Catholic vote in 1924.  I would think that Coolidge won, but only with a plurality.

I would actually be surprised if Coolidge won them outright, but I’m sure it was close.

Warren Harding almost certainly did in 1920.

Yeah, Wikipedia says it was “split” in 1920, citing a book as its source in the footnotes and not giving any more detail.  Not exactly helpful to us!  Lol.