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Wilson would have gotten nowhere beyond being the Governor of New Jersey but for the then Solid South, which voted consistently for the Democrats from 1876 to 1968. Remember too that Wilson lied about his intention to stay out of World War I during the 1916 Presidential election.

Additionally, Princeton was at the time the most conservative of the Ivy League schools. The related theological seminary was a stronghold of Old School Calvinism during his tenure as university president. The liberals staged a coup there in the 1920s, but by that time Wilson was long gone.

Thank you for the additional information. I have little doubt that the South voted Democrat specifically as a means of getting a little revenge on the Republicans who had killed so many of them and who had impoverished them and destroyed so much of their wealth.

I have read that nearly 2 million people in the South starved to death or died of disease and exposure as a consequence of the destruction of the Civil War.

If this is true, you can clearly see how it would have created a generational consequence of hating the people who did it to them.

They knee jerk voted for Wilson without realizing he had gone Liberal. They were all "yellow dog" Democrats in those days.

Additionally, Princeton was at the time the most conservative of the Ivy League schools.

They have all gone over to the dark side nowadays. It's a shame. They used to be beacons of higher learning, and now they are just beacons of indoctrination in useless "studies" of no value to mankind.