If Smith won, would we be talking about “Smithvilles”? Would King Kong climb the Chrysler Building (Smith’s business ventures after 1928 led to the construction of the Empire State Building)?
Democrats dodged a real bullet in 1928, that they didn't in 1892.
Yes, though it should be noted there were generational seeds being planted for that realignment already, it is just that the Depression was the motivating factor coalescing and pushing them towards the Democratic Party.
Yes I would say so, as the first signs of urban situation becoming more like it is now certainly starts in 1928.
I wonder: What if a Republican with a more flexible personality was elected in 1928?
The Depression is still the depression, though Hoover was brutally effective at suppressing dissent in the Republican Party even as late as 1932.
Very hard to do that considering how entrenched the party was on those points. Also dropping tariffs kind of drops the whole crux of the GOP's urban support, that it preserved the industrial society through its tariffs.
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