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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal Actually, if you read your history, you will find that family farmers were all consistent Democrat voters since the founding of the Republican party in the 1850's, all the way through the reign of FDR, right up to the boondoggle of the Carter Administration. [/quote] Cotton plantations aren't family farms. Family farms were (past tense) homesteads typically in the plain states (Nebraska, Kansas, Dakota's). Railroads recruited families from Europe to populate the land grants railroads were given by the government. [url]http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/[/url] Here's a map for you showing Presidential elections by state back to 1860. Democrats seldom won outside the south until Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights act giving the south to Republicans, just as Johnson predicted.
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