As a former Confederate state, North Carolina had a history of Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party in state politics. However, unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party had sufficient historic Unionist White support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in most general elections,[3] where turnout was higher than elsewhere in the former Confederacy due substantially to the state's early abolition of the poll tax in 1920.[4] A rapid move following disenfranchisement to a completely “lily-white” state GOP also helped maintain Republican support amongst the state's voters.[5] Like Virginia, Tennessee and Oklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewide white primaries, although certain counties did use the white primary.[6]
However, anti-Catholicism against 1928 Democratic nominee Al Smith in the fishing communities of the Outer Banks, alongside increasing middle-class Republican voting in such cities as Charlotte, Durham and Greensboro,[7] meant that Republican nominee Herbert Hoover would use the lily-white state party to win its electoral votes for the first time since the Reconstruction election of 1872. During Hoover's administration, North Carolina was the scene of a major controversy in the Supreme Court nomination of Fourth Circuit judge and 1920 Republican gubernatorial candidateJohn Johnston Parker. During that election, Parker had said that black North Carolinians no longer desire to participate in politics, and when he was nominated the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent letters to senators requesting Parker's defeat.[8] The NAACP would ultimately succeed in defeating Parker, being helped by many Southern Democrats who feared that his nomination would strengthen a newly lily-white Republican Party in the South, by many Northern and Border State Republicans opposed to a lily-white GOP in the former Confederacy, and by the hostility of the American Federation of Labor to some of his rulings.[9] The Parker defeat put an end to Republican efforts to breach the “Solid South” for over two decades, and in North Carolina the two Republican Congressmen elected in 1928 would both be defeated in 1930.
Although North Carolina suffered the smallest relative income loss of any state as a result of the Depression,[10] many Southerners blamed the collapse on the North and on Wall Street.[11] it had extremely severe effects in the South, which had the highest unemployment rate in the nation, and many Southerners blamed this on the North and on Wall Street, rejecting Hoover's claim that the Depression's causes were exogenous.[11]
Neither Hoover nor Democratic nominees GovernorFranklin D. Roosevelt and SpeakerJohn Nance Garner campaigned in North Carolina, which was universally expected to return to the “Solid South” with economic conditions as bad as they were.[12] Early polls in October would entirely omit the state, even those including Confederate states that had actually remained loyal to Al Smith.[13] The only poll taken in the state was taken very late in the campaign and had Roosevelt leading by three-to-one.[14]
North Carolina was won by Roosevelt with 69.93 percent of the popular vote, against Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis, with 29.28 percent of the popular vote.[15] Roosevelt won all but six loyally Unionist counties; although as in 1928 rock-ribbed Republican Avery County in the northwestern Blue Ridge Mountains was Hoover's tenth-best in the country.[16]
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1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina
^Key, Valdimer Orlando; Southern Politics in State and Nation, p. 502, Alfred A. Knopf (1949)
^Heersink, Boris; Jenkins, Jeffery A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968. pp. 48–50, 239–243. ISBN9781316663950.
^Klarman, Michael J. (2001). "The White Primary Rulings: A Case Study in the Consequences of Supreme Court Decision-Making". Florida State University Law Review. 29: 55–107.
^Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 212-215
^Goings, Kenneth W. (1990). The NAACP comes of age: the defeat of Judge John J. Parker. pp. 23–24. ISBN0253325854.
^Lewinson, Paul (1965). Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South. pp. 167–168.
^See "Roosevelt Increases Lead over Hoover with Nearly 800,000 Votes Counted in Literary Digest's Poll". The Piqua Daily Call. October 7, 1932. p. 6.
^"All Record Broken by Digest Poll: Semi-Final Figures Near 3,000,000 Mark — Vote Stands Hoover 1,093,274, Roosevelt 1,648,237". The Hartford Daily Courant. October 28, 1932. p. 24.
^"1932 Presidential General Election Results – North Carolina". Retrieved January 29, 2019.
^"1932 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
^"NC US President Race, November 08, 1932". Our Campaigns.
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Main article 1932 United States presidential election The 1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 8 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election North Carolina voters chose thirteen 2 representatives or electors to the Electoral College who voted for president and vice president 1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina 1928 November 8 1932 1 1936 All 13 North Carolina votes to the Electoral College Nominee Franklin D Roosevelt Herbert HooverParty Democratic RepublicanHome state New York CaliforniaRunning mate John Nance Garner Charles CurtisElectoral vote 13 0Popular vote 497 566 208 344Percentage 69 93 29 28 County Results Roosevelt 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 90 100 Hoover 50 60 60 70 70 80 President before electionHerbert HooverRepublican Elected President Franklin D RooseveltDemocraticAs a former Confederate state North Carolina had a history of Jim Crow laws disfranchisement of its African American population and dominance of the Democratic Party in state politics However unlike the Deep South the Republican Party had sufficient historic Unionist White support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one third of the statewide vote total in most general elections 3 where turnout was higher than elsewhere in the former Confederacy due substantially to the state s early abolition of the poll tax in 1920 4 A rapid move following disenfranchisement to a completely lily white state GOP also helped maintain Republican support amongst the state s voters 5 Like Virginia Tennessee and Oklahoma the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewide white primaries although certain counties did use the white primary 6 However anti Catholicism against 1928 Democratic nominee Al Smith in the fishing communities of the Outer Banks alongside increasing middle class Republican voting in such cities as Charlotte Durham and Greensboro 7 meant that Republican nominee Herbert Hoover would use the lily white state party to win its electoral votes for the first time since the Reconstruction election of 1872 During Hoover s administration North Carolina was the scene of a major controversy in the Supreme Court nomination of Fourth Circuit judge and 1920 Republican gubernatorial candidate John Johnston Parker During that election Parker had said that black North Carolinians no longer desire to participate in politics and when he was nominated the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent letters to senators requesting Parker s defeat 8 The NAACP would ultimately succeed in defeating Parker being helped by many Southern Democrats who feared that his nomination would strengthen a newly lily white Republican Party in the South by many Northern and Border State Republicans opposed to a lily white GOP in the former Confederacy and by the hostility of the American Federation of Labor to some of his rulings 9 The Parker defeat put an end to Republican efforts to breach the Solid South for over two decades and in North Carolina the two Republican Congressmen elected in 1928 would both be defeated in 1930 Although North Carolina suffered the smallest relative income loss of any state as a result of the Depression 10 many Southerners blamed the collapse on the North and on Wall Street 11 it had extremely severe effects in the South which had the highest unemployment rate in the nation and many Southerners blamed this on the North and on Wall Street rejecting Hoover s claim that the Depression s causes were exogenous 11 Neither Hoover nor Democratic nominees Governor Franklin D Roosevelt and Speaker John Nance Garner campaigned in North Carolina which was universally expected to return to the Solid South with economic conditions as bad as they were 12 Early polls in October would entirely omit the state even those including Confederate states that had actually remained loyal to Al Smith 13 The only poll taken in the state was taken very late in the campaign and had Roosevelt leading by three to one 14 North Carolina was won by Roosevelt with 69 93 percent of the popular vote against Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis with 29 28 percent of the popular vote 15 Roosevelt won all but six loyally Unionist counties although as in 1928 rock ribbed Republican Avery County in the northwestern Blue Ridge Mountains was Hoover s tenth best in the country 16 Results edit1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina Party Candidate Votes Democratic Franklin D Roosevelt 497 566 69 93 Republican Herbert Hoover incumbent 208 344 29 28 Socialist Norman Thomas 5 591 0 79 Total votes 711 501 100 Results by county edit 1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina by county 17 County Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Herbert Clark HooverRepublican Norman Mattoon ThomasSocialist Margin Bertie 97 83 3 154 2 02 65 0 16 5 95 81 3 089Martin 97 37 3 781 2 42 94 0 21 8 94 95 3 687Pitt 96 55 7 724 3 19 255 0 26 21 93 36 7 469Hoke 96 22 1 780 3 51 65 0 27 5 92 70 1 715Greene 96 28 2 510 3 61 94 0 12 3 92 67 2 416Currituck 96 02 1 759 3 77 69 0 22 4 92 25 1 690Chowan 95 96 1 639 3 75 64 0 29 5 92 21 1 575Warren 95 82 2 661 3 96 110 0 22 6 91 86 2 551Edgecombe 95 62 5 872 4 04 248 0 34 21 91 58 5 624Northampton 95 47 3 243 4 33 147 0 21 7 91 14 3 096Franklin 95 34 4 294 4 42 199 0 24 11 90 92 4 095Hertford 95 08 1 835 4 56 88 0 36 7 90 52 1 747Halifax 94 98 6 413 4 53 306 0 49 33 90 45 6 107Anson 94 91 4 252 4 98 223 0 11 5 89 93 4 029Granville 94 51 3 808 5 26 212 0 22 9 89 25 3 596Nash 92 79 7 472 6 61 532 0 61 49 86 18 6 940Gates 93 01 1 198 6 91 89 0 08 1 86 10 1 109Lenoir 92 60 4 677 6 93 350 0 48 24 85 67 4 327Scotland 92 42 2 608 7 37 208 0 21 6 85 05 2 400Vance 92 03 3 833 7 64 318 0 34 14 84 39 3 515Camden 92 05 915 7 85 78 0 10 1 84 21 837Wilson 91 55 6 153 7 69 517 0 76 51 83 86 5 636Jones 91 42 1 449 8 33 132 0 25 4 83 09 1 317Caswell 91 39 1 858 8 31 169 0 30 6 83 08 1 689Onslow 90 89 2 615 8 79 253 0 31 9 82 10 2 362Robeson 90 48 7 860 9 01 783 0 51 44 81 47 7 077Craven 90 02 4 375 9 59 466 0 39 19 80 43 3 909Pasquotank 89 49 2 946 9 96 328 0 55 18 79 53 2 618Union 88 84 6 103 10 33 710 0 83 57 78 50 5 393Pender 87 64 1 993 11 87 270 0 48 11 75 77 1 723Hyde 87 43 1 050 12 24 147 0 33 4 75 19 903Richmond 86 96 4 862 12 39 693 0 64 36 74 57 4 169Columbus 86 55 5 098 12 55 739 0 90 53 74 01 4 359Wake 86 02 14 863 12 56 2 170 1 42 246 73 46 12 693Beaufort 86 33 5 552 13 05 839 0 62 40 73 29 4 713Perquimans 84 94 1 280 14 93 225 0 13 2 70 01 1 055Cumberland 83 77 5 012 15 56 931 0 67 40 68 21 4 081Lee 81 50 3 058 18 15 681 0 35 13 63 35 2 377Cleveland 80 60 8 016 19 15 1 904 0 25 25 61 46 6 112New Hanover 79 33 6 030 18 81 1 430 1 86 141 60 52 4 600Duplin 79 46 4 674 19 94 1 173 0 60 35 59 52 3 501Wayne 79 01 6 365 20 25 1 631 0 74 60 58 76 4 734Mecklenburg 77 90 18 167 21 32 4 973 0 78 181 56 58 13 194Person 77 80 2 372 21 65 660 0 56 17 56 15 1 712Tyrrell 76 78 873 22 69 258 0 53 6 54 09 615Bladen 75 85 2 651 23 12 808 1 03 36 52 73 1 843Washington 72 71 1 681 26 77 619 0 52 12 45 93 1 062Rockingham 72 37 7 795 26 89 2 896 0 74 80 45 48 4 899Durham 70 78 7 559 25 94 2 770 3 29 351 44 84 4 789Orange 69 57 2 924 26 50 1 114 3 93 165 43 06 1 810Dare 71 16 1 241 28 50 497 0 34 6 42 66 744Gaston 70 78 12 890 28 36 5 164 0 86 157 42 42 7 726Johnston 70 86 9 574 28 77 3 887 0 37 50 42 09 5 687Cabarrus 70 68 8 465 28 76 3 444 0 57 68 41 92 5 021Harnett 70 42 6 346 29 04 2 617 0 54 49 41 38 3 729Forsyth 69 73 14 016 28 49 5 727 1 78 357 41 24 8 289Alleghany 70 28 1 951 29 18 810 0 54 15 41 10 1 141Iredell 69 70 8 367 29 85 3 583 0 46 55 39 85 4 784Pamlico 67 34 1 526 29 35 665 3 31 75 38 00 861Haywood 68 54 6 790 31 11 3 082 0 34 34 37 43 3 708Rowan 67 81 9 782 30 94 4 464 1 25 180 36 86 5 318Buncombe 66 69 18 241 31 97 8 745 1 34 367 34 72 9 496Guilford 66 42 19 301 31 88 9 263 1 70 495 34 54 10 038Carteret 65 50 3 455 33 46 1 765 1 04 55 32 04 1 690McDowell 65 68 4 810 33 84 2 478 0 48 35 31 84 2 332Rutherford 64 93 8 336 34 65 4 448 0 42 54 30 29 3 888Alamance 63 97 8 240 34 76 4 478 1 27 164 29 20 3 762Moore 63 11 4 287 36 20 2 459 0 69 47 26 91 1 828Polk 62 48 2 401 36 98 1 421 0 55 21 25 50 980Surry 62 05 7 490 37 37 4 511 0 57 69 24 68 2 979Chatham 61 68 4 263 37 47 2 590 0 85 59 24 20 1 673Jackson 60 49 4 360 39 03 2 813 0 49 35 21 46 1 547Davidson 59 95 9 292 39 04 6 051 1 01 157 20 91 3 241Alexander 59 86 2 953 39 57 1 952 0 57 28 20 29 1 001Transylvania 59 84 2 523 39 63 1 671 0 52 22 20 21 852Caldwell 59 07 5 479 40 43 3 750 0 50 46 18 64 1 729Catawba 58 90 8 446 40 56 5 817 0 54 77 18 33 2 629Stanly 58 87 5 785 40 63 3 992 0 50 49 18 25 1 793Stokes 58 76 3 721 40 69 2 577 0 55 35 18 06 1 144Yancey 58 66 3 412 41 19 2 396 0 15 9 17 47 1 016Macon 57 97 3 223 41 49 2 307 0 54 30 16 47 916Montgomery 57 41 2 927 42 23 2 153 0 35 18 15 18 774Swain 55 78 2 412 43 78 1 893 0 44 19 12 00 519Henderson 55 37 5 255 43 96 4 172 0 66 63 11 41 1 083Brunswick 55 30 2 245 44 29 1 798 0 42 17 11 01 447Lincoln 55 02 4 399 44 56 3 563 0 43 34 10 46 836Ashe 54 86 4 751 44 70 3 871 0 44 38 10 16 880Burke 54 64 5 866 44 92 4 823 0 44 47 9 71 1 043Randolph 54 44 7 345 45 00 6 072 0 56 75 9 44 1 273Sampson 53 66 4 911 45 09 4 127 1 25 114 8 57 784Graham 53 32 1 364 46 25 1 183 0 43 11 7 08 181Watauga 51 76 3 419 47 93 3 166 0 32 21 3 83 253Cherokee 51 48 3 348 48 14 3 131 0 38 25 3 34 217Clay 51 30 1 341 48 39 1 265 0 31 8 2 91 76Davie 48 64 2 381 50 52 2 473 0 84 41 1 88 92Wilkes 46 04 5 598 53 64 6 522 0 32 39 7 60 924Yadkin 44 68 2 789 54 82 3 422 0 50 31 10 14 633Madison 37 57 2 769 61 76 4 552 0 66 49 24 19 1 783Mitchell 31 77 1 773 68 06 3 798 0 16 9 36 29 2 025Avery 26 79 1 045 72 64 2 833 0 56 22 45 85 1 788References edit United States Presidential election of 1932 Encyclopaedia Britannica Retrieved January 29 2019 1932 Election for the Thirty seventh Term 1933 37 Retrieved 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