Posted on 05/09/2014 5:56:10 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
WV did also have some similarities to neighboring Maryland. During the Civil War and just after, MD had a strong Unionist contingent — although only one officially became a Republican in the House with the 1866 elections and the rest were Democrat-aligned. With the exception of the Western 6th district, which has mostly been GOP-friendly since the 1872 elections to date, the rest of the state dovetailed somewhat with WV, beginning around 1894/96 when the Republicans took a majority (half the House seats in 1894, and all 6 in 1896, along with enough seats in the legislature to elect a GOP Senator in 1897 and in the other seat in 1899). They didn’t elect their first GOP Governor until 1895.
Unfortunately, this latter period in the 1890s would tend to be a high-water mark for the GOP across the board. It was about the last time they held offices such as Attorney General. Although the state was semi-GOP leaning from about 1894 onwards, the Dems reclaimed the legislature and Governorship after only a term for each of those offices, though the GOP maintained control of half of the House delegation until 1910. Oddly, against the national tide, the GOP won back the Governorship in 1911, but gave up the entire House delegation in 1912 (though a death in the Senate allowed the GOP Governor to appoint a Senator, though the seat was lost soon after).
With the advent of the 17th, it allowed the GOP to take back that same seat in the 1916 elections, even though they took just 2 House seats (out of 6). Also oddly, against the national tide, the Dems maintained control of the Governorship thoughout the GOP heavy period between 1916-1935 (and just as oddly, won it in the awful year of 1934, whose occupant, Harry Nice, was considered a strong contender for the GOP for President solely because he had won the job). The GOP also reclaimed the House majority in the state in 1920, getting the other Senate seat and 4 of 6 seats (and oddly losing the Eastern Shore 1st district with a GOP incumbent, one of the very few, perhaps 2(?) seats they lost in that banner year — similar to 1980 when we lost that district with incumbent Bob Bauman, who got embroiled in a gay sex scandal).
Where the state started to part company with WV was probably in the 1920s, as it swung hard to the Dems. By 1924, the MD GOP had lost its House majority, and even in 1928, elected just 2 members out of 6 (though it did win a Senate seat). In the 1930 elections, it was wiped out across the board. No federal Republican would be elected again until 1942 (and only Harry Nice was the lone Republican from 1935-39, but in the Governorship).
The GOP had a brief resurgence in the 1950s (winning the Governorship in 1950 with liberal Ted McKeldin, along with a Senate seat by Conservative John Marshall Butler, thanks in part to Joe McCarthy’s help and a heavy Black vote defeating the left-wing segregationist Millard Tydings) with the party in 1952 also getting 4 of the 7 House seats for the first time since 1920 along with the other Senate seat.
The GOP strength dwindled from after the late ‘50s onward, and as we know have only elected 2 Governors since after 1958 (Agnew in 1966 and Ehrlich in 2002), 2 Senators since after 1968 (the moderate Glenn Beall, Jr. for a single term in 1970, and the ultraliberal Chuck Mathias, who was poised to switch parties had he remained after 1987). Curiously, we had the favorable district lines during the ‘90s with half of the 8-member delegation from 1992-2002 (and for a very brief period, a majority of the House delegation in between Kweisi Mfume’s resignation and the execrable Elijah Cummings’ replacement election). Now, of course, via highly unfair gerrymandering (which punishes both Republicans and Black Democrats), we have that single House seat today and the rest of the party statewide remains exceptionally weak (and whether that equation changes in November, especially with the Governorship, we shall see).
Ah, thanks.
Ellis is a normal conservative. Amash is a Paultarded jackass, not “great”. Who gives a damn about a meaningless vote against Boner, Boner did not even have a challenger.
I would probably stick in it the South since they were part of VA and VA is the South (even though NOVA is no longer politically part of the South) and they are now voting like the Republican South.
But if they say “pop” they’re Midwest enough for me!
Weird choice for “other” in certain parts of the country, some variation of “so-dee” or “so-dee pop”. That sounds like something out of the 19th century.
What do they call it in Puerto Rico?
I love looking up those outliers during landslides that switch sides to the losing party. It saddened me that 2006 had NONE for the GOP, close misses in Georgia.
ME-2 is one of the them from ‘94, I’d love to get it back.
Looks there were more GOP House loses in 1920 than I thought.
Besides MD-1 there was the other one I was already familiar with, KY-8, Republican King Swope (cool name) had won the formerly rat seat in a 1919 special, didn’t hang on.
There were also 2 open seat loses, NY-28 and OK-5 (who’s GOP incumbent John Harreld was elected to the Senate).
<<<<<<<<<<BTW, there were pockets of Black population: in the Southernmost county of McDowell, it had enough influence to send a husband and wife, Black Republicans, to the State House of Delegates in the ‘20s. It was a populous mining county back then.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Neat, what were their names?
In Puerto Rico, the generic is either “Coca-Cola” or “refresco” (the latter literally “refresher”). You can click on state results on that website to see the PR results.
The “other” category nationwide is mainly “tonic” in and around the Boston area, “soft drink” in NC and a few other places, the “soda-pop,” “sodie,” etc. that you noted (small minorities in some places), people d1cking around instead of answering seriously, and “vanity posts” by people who feel that they need a paragraph to describe what the call a group of carbonated beverages.
Another thing about WV in where it differed from Southern states was that Blacks were enfranchised there, and why they had political power at a time when their neighbors did not. Democrats wanted to implement Jim Crow, but Republicans opposed it (and in the coal mining areas, the GOP business owners needed out-of-state Black workers, so it was why they came flooding in).
One source claimed McDowell County, the epicenter of “Black WV” had a whopping 24% Black population as of 1950 (when it had nearly 100,000 people), unmatched by any other county in WV and more in line with more urban locales elsewhere. Going back to 1880, when it was rural and undeveloped, there were all of THREE Blacks (!).
http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh54-5.html
The article also said that because of the large influx of Blacks to the county that it sent a Black member to the WV House beginning with the 1914(?) elections. It must’ve been Ebenezer Howard Harper (although another source said he began serving in 1917). He apparently served for a few non-consecutive terms until his death in 1927 (he was struck by a car, survived, but his right leg was amputated and it appeared lingering effects from that led to his death).
Republican Governor Howard Gore appointed his widow, Minnie Buckingham Harper, who served for a year, but didn’t run again (1928). She apparently had the singular distinction of being the first Black woman to serve in any legislature in the U.S.
However, upon further research, it was not McDowell County that first sent Black Republicans to the legislature in WV, but nearby Fayette County, and as early as the 1896 elections (attorney and teacher Christopher Payne) and continuously into (at least) the 1910s. Black participation in politics in WV also extended back to when Booker T. Washington helped to urge the move of the capital from Wheeling to Charleston. Even in WV’s ugliest Gubernatorial campaign in the history of the state, 1888, Blacks provided the narrow margin of victory for the Republican candidate. However, Democrats used all their powers to have their votes tossed out, taking more than a year, to seat the Democrat loser (not until 1896 would the GOP officially claim the office, again with overwhelming Black support).
Since coal mining began to dwindle in the mid-20th century, Blacks left those areas when the jobs went away and the populations (and their percentages) have drastically declined. It’s curious that the rise of Robert Byrd happened just as they were heading for the exits, since it is unlikely his brand of politics would’ve gone over well in the decades before. As it was, he beat the pro-civil rights GOP Senate incumbent Chapman Revercomb in 1958 (although I have no reliable figures in the matter, I would tend to think Revercomb probably got the bulk of the Black vote).
Guess who's also back in the news from that Senate race? Blair Hull, the ultra liberal zillionaire that Obama destroyed by going through his divorce files. Hull has never supported a Republican in his life, but now he's endorsing "Republican" Bruce Rauner for Governor. Sadly some freepers will see that as a GOOD sign -- a "Republican" being touted by the likes of Hull, Rev. Meeks, and Mike Madigan:
I’m shocked, truly. Not.
Yuck.
it’s Mooney out of the gate, Pharmacist Reed 3 lengths back ...
http://elections.nytimes.com/2014/results/primaries/west-virginia
With 2% in Mooney leads lane by 10 votes. Might be a close one.
total turnout will prob not exceed 60,000
There are more votes being cast in the rat primary. It may be some time before that changes.
First poll I’ve seen of MN-7
SurveyUSA
Congressman Collin Peterson (D) 50%, State Senator Torrey Westrom (R) 41%
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