Alachua County, FL 1928

[Nym90]

Alfred Smith Democrat     1,965     35.01%
Norman Thomas Socialist    1,806    32.18%
William Foster Communist    1,709    30.45%
Herbert Hoover Republican    132    2.35%

Any idea why this county was such a stronghold for the left? Almost 63 percent of the vote combined for the Socialists and Communists. Thomas only broke 10 percent in one other county nationwide while Foster didn't crack 6 percent anywhere else.

[phk]

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[minionofmidas]

They didn't get the vote-rigging memo sent to every county in the country.

[Adlai Stevenson]

Isn't Alachua the only majority-black county in the state of Florida? 

[Alcon]

Isn't Alachua the only majority-black county in the state of Florida? 

Alachua is less than 1/5 white.  It's Gainesville - college town.

You're thinking Gadsden County, which at 57.1% black, is the only majority black county in Florida.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

They didn't get the vote-rigging memo sent to every county in the country.

There was an interesting anecdote about vote-rigging during that general period (four years later IIRC) in a book the man in my sig wrote. I'll try dig it up.

[Nym90]

Isn't Alachua the only majority-black county in the state of Florida? 

Alachua is less than 1/5 black.  It's Gainesville - college town.

You're thinking Gadsden County, which at 57.1% black, is the only majority black county in Florida.

I assume this is what you meant re: Alachua?

[minionofmidas]

They didn't get the vote-rigging memo sent to every county in the country.

There was an interesting anecdote about vote-rigging during that general period (four years later IIRC) in a book the man in my sig wrote. I'll try dig it up.

Which one, Slick or the Devil?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

They didn't get the vote-rigging memo sent to every county in the country.

There was an interesting anecdote about vote-rigging during that general period (four years later IIRC) in a book the man in my sig wrote. I'll try dig it up.

Which one, Slick or the Devil?

When I posted that, Irving Howe was still there. It's on the blog thingy now, but I'll post it here as well:

“Harry Fleischman, a socialist leader, tells a story, not at all unusual, about serving as poll watcher in a Bronx district. When the votes were counted, there were six for the Communist Party, and since no communist watcher was present, the Republican and Democratic local agents proposed that the six votes be split equally among the three parties. Good democrat that he was, Fleischman indignantly refused. Later it occured to him that if he hadn’t been there the socialist vote might also have been “redistributed”.

[Adlai Stevenson]

Isn't Alachua the only majority-black county in the state of Florida? 

Alachua is less than 1/5 black.  It's Gainesville - college town.

You're thinking Gadsden County, which at 57.1% black, is the only majority black county in Florida.

I assume this is what you meant re: Alachua?

Yes thanks/