The Proggerisve Canadate actually won the state, says alot about their entrechment up there.
Number 2, look at where the headquarters are at.
An Ice Cream Polar, must have been the cheapest :)
The Proggerisve Canadate actually won the state, says alot about their entrechment up there.
Number 2, look at where the headquarters are at.
An Ice Cream Polar, must have been the cheapest :)
No surprise. American fabian socialists planted their flag in Wisconsin.
I believe Wisconsin is the birthplace of public sector unionism.
The obvious explanation is that Robert LaFollette, the "Progressive" candidate, was their "favorite son", a Republican senator from Wisconsin. LaFollette considered himself the heir to the Theodore Roosevelt wing of the GOP, though TR had been dead for five years.
Coolidge was the incumbent in that election, having assumed the presidency after the unexpected death of Warren Harding.
John Davis, originally from West Virginia and who had moved to New York, was the last Democrat presidential nominee who could legimately be called a conservative. If you look at the map, the striking thing is that Davis swept all eleven states of the Old Confederacy, took Oklahoma (which, though it didn't enter the union until 40 years after the Civil War, was settled mostly by people from the Old Confederacy and their descendants), but won nowhere else. Coolidge had a massive 25 point lead over Davis in the popular vote nationally, a huge endorsement - except for the South - of his job performance in the one year and three months he had been in the White House.
This election is the subject of a book called The High Tide of American Conservatism, by Garland S. Tucker III, published by Emerald Book Co. in Austin, Texas in 2010.