1960 study on the demographics of California's political parties

[Sumner 1868]

https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032451/http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/pubs/CalPolls/305.pdf

Certainly was a different time.

[Sumner 1868]

Very interesting. The immediate post-New Deal era was the closest the US ever got to class-based voting. How did you happen to come across this?

Several years ago I was lurking on AlternateHistory.com and someone posted one of those Field polls in PDF form, and I checked out the main site. You can't access them directly from the UCData Berkeley website anymore, but someone used the Wayback Machine and archived all California Field polls from 1946-1995. I haven't read all of them, but plenty of good stuff about everything from the Marshall Plan to Prop 187.

For those who are interested in such things:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170805130744/http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/data_record.php?recid=42

[Sumner 1868]

Rural people were slightly likelier to be Democratic than Republican. That's certainly something that would not be true today.

Bigger timber industry back then. Redding was more like Grays Harbor WA/Coos OR/Humboldt CA in those days.