A History of Electoral College Maps |
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If you’re a political junkie like myself, you might be interested in this website showing the history of every American Presidential election. Especially interesting is the divide between the north and the south (with the south going Democratic) that began in 1860 (Lincoln) and kept popping up year after year (especially 1924) all the way until 1980. Also interesting is to see the four consecutive landslide elections that FDR pulled off between 1932 and 1944.
Man, 1904 was the most interesting–split straight across the North-South line. The Democratic hold on the South I think had a lot to do with the fact that the Republicans were early supporters of abolition and in the years following the Civil War the “party of inclusion” (the Democratic Party) was still adamantly in favor of protecting Southern states’ rights. Weird how that inversion occurred somewhere around the time of Reagan.