US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MAPS: 1860-1996

Submitted by Charleston Voice
Nov. 3, 2004

I found this link to presidential electoral maps fascinating....a couple shockers: 1868: the South voted for Grant as a bloc. Hardly believable if it was honest as all Confederate veterans (Democrats) were prohibited from politics during Reconstruction, and the Republican Party (Whigs) had installed their favorite carpetbaggers & scalawags to elected office at the point of Union Army bayonets. Grant's opponent was Horatio Seymour, a New Yorker, a Constitutionalist, and an obvious and outward supporter of southern traditions and values. Given a free choice, Seymour would have clearly been the choice for southerners:

"Again elected (1862) governor [NY], Seymour declared the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional, opposed federal conscription as an unwarranted invasion of states’ rights (but vigorously promoted voluntary enlistments), and denounced the military arrest of Clement L. Vallandigham. His speech in New York City on the occasion of the draft riots (July, 1863) played into Republican hands and was a factor in his defeat (1864). He was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1868." (map)

The other shocker was the South going for Alfred E. Smith in 1928. Smith was a governor of NY, a conservative Democrat & couldn't even carry his own state, but his strength was in the South among Conservative Democrats. His opponent? Herbert Hoover - who carried the entire US - all but six southern states! Alfred E. Smith went on to warn his fellow Americans about the rising tide of Bolshevism. (map)

Complete list:

As a voting bloc, the South is still intact, and just awaits a genuine (no Carters, puleez!) Conservative Christian Constitutionalist to show them the way.