Stevenson 56 - Nixon 60 counties

[Yu748Girl83]

How many were there?

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

Dozens of anti-Catholic Southern counties

[TDAS04]

Dozens of anti-Catholic Southern counties

Plus about a couple anti-Catholic Upper Midwestern counties.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

A lot in Oklahoma and the Ozarks

[E-Dawg]

Weirdly enough, there were 3 in Washington (Cowlitz, Grant, Douglas). Not sure why.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Weirdly enough, there were 3 in Washington (Cowlitz, Grant, Douglas). Not sure why.

A lot of rural areas swung towards Stevenson in 56 due I believe to a dislike of Ike’s farm policy.

[darklordoftech]

I wonder if there’s Stevenson 50 - Nixon 60 - Kerry 2004 - McCain 2008 counties.

[TDAS04]

Looking at the Upper Midwest, Kennedy clearly underperformed in the more Norwegian, Lutheran counties, even though Kennedy obviously performed better throughout the region than Stevenson 52. Stevenson 56 overperformed quite a bit due to the farm crisis, but JFK didn’t generate enough love around here (outside the more Catholic areas) to continue that trend.

Todd County, South Dakota flipped Republican in 1960, but I’m not sure why.

[ReaganLimbaugh]

Dozens of anti-Catholic Southern counties

Like which ones?

[Vice President Christian Man]

I wonder if there’s Stevenson 50 - Nixon 60 - Kerry 2004 - McCain 2008 counties.

Clay County Tennessee, Clay County Arkansas & Randolph County Arkansas are the ones I know of. It wouldn't surprise me if there were a few other ones.

[Republican Party Stalwart]

Weirdly enough, there were 3 in Washington (Cowlitz, Grant, Douglas). Not sure why.

A lot of rural areas swung towards Stevenson in 56 due I believe to a dislike of Ike’s farm policy.

Not to mention that the (non-Hispanic white) population of Washington (and Oregon) was (and is) one of the most heavily WASP outside of the South (Oregon, apart from significant Basque settlement in Malheur County, was mostly settled by Yankees and Mountain-Southerners; Washington, apart from significant German Catholic settlement in Ferry County, was mostly settled by Yankees, Scandinavians, and German Protestants). Those states are disproportionately secular and irreligious - ergo basically devoid of Protestant anti-Catholicism - today, but as recently as the 1920s, Protestant religiosity (or at least an ethno-religious "Protestant identity consciousness," so to speak) was strong enough in the region such that Al Smith got completely bodied there in 1928 (outside of the South, some of Hoover's biggest gains over Coolidge by percentage of the vote were in the Pacific NW), and such that the Second Klan was so popular in Oregon in the 1920's that it had the power to swing statewide elections. Depending on how far along the religious decline of the Pacific Northwest was by 1960, anti-Catholicism may have also been an important factor there in that election, even if not as much as it was in the South or in Middle-America.

[Republican Party Stalwart]

I wonder if there’s Stevenson 50 - Nixon 60 - Kerry 2004 - McCain 2008 counties.

Randolph County AR, Clay County AR, and Clay County TN were all Stevenson 52 - Stevenson 56 - Nixon 60 - Kerry 2004 - McCain 2008.

Magoffin County KY voted for Stevenson in 52 but for Eisenhower in 56, and then voted Nixon 60 - Kerry 2004 - McCain 2008.