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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 10:35 PM
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County map of the 1936 presidential election (FDR v. Landon)
Damn. This was a very different country back then.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 10:39 PM
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1. Wow! But it looks like my district (NY) hasn't changed...
:-(
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 10:40 PM
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2. Astonishing. It looks like Eastern Mass went for Alf Landon. Very odd.
Edited on Fri Nov-06-09 10:41 PM by virgogal
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 10:46 PM
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4. His VP was Frank Knox.
Edited on Fri Nov-06-09 10:47 PM by baldguy
Born in Boston.
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 10:51 PM
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5. Maybe that's what did it,but I'm still stunned. Lived here all
my life,was a toddler when this election took place,and grew up thinking FDR was a god.

What a surprise to me.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 10:43 PM
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3. I don't think he ever won Duchess County, his home county.
ER: These machines work great!
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 10:53 PM
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6. The north was republican and the south was democratic
also before Hoover betrayed the NAACP most African Americans were part of the republican party.
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 11:18 PM
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7. well, in earlier decades and centuries Republicans were the pro-civil rights pro-conservation types.
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SmileyRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 11:53 PM
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8. HA ! I was right !!!!!!!
Warren county, Ohio has been inhabited by selfish a-holes for eons.
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