Why did Thomas Dewey win Michigan in 1948? (user search)
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« on: March 31, 2023, 02:26:10 AM »
Quote from: 🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸 on March 30, 2023, 09:31:26 PM
Michigan was still a Republican-leaning state at that point.  It had been very Republican early in the century, with a lot of the population being in small towns from Republican-friendly ancestry (New England Yankee, German, Dutch, etc.).  But it had been gradually becoming less Republican, and this continued to wins by JFK and Humphrey in the 1960s.

The African-American vote becoming ~90% Democratic after the 1964 CRA almost certainly helped a lot in Michigan.
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