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Invaded South. The notion of the Republican Party (below Ike), as a wilting minority is statistically without base, even though both Ike and G.O.P. strategists were shocked that the avalanche did not sweep in a Republican House and Senate. East of the Mississippi no Democrat unseated a Republican House incumbent-and West of the Mississippi no Republican unseated a Democratic incumbent. Outside the South. Republicans carried at least 193 congressional districts; the Democrats carried fewer than 130. The Republicans cracked all traditionally Democratic ethnic and religious blocs except (amid the Israel crisis) the Jewish. In the South, every...
...House, the Democratic victory was more decisive. Going into the election, the Democrats held 230 House seats (needed for control: 218). They picked up all their seats west of the Mississippi: one apiece in Iowa. Kansas. Missouri, South Dakota, Nevada and Montana; two apiece in Oregon and California. The Republicans gained one apiece in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana. Michigan and Pennsylvania, two in New Jersey and West Virginia. Total: at least 233 Democratic, with three still in doubt...
East of the Mississippi, Ike took everything in sight-and he helped many another Republican candidate to victory: e.g.,in Illinois, Republican Senator Everett Dirksen and G.O.P. Governor William Stratton would have been beaten had it not been for the Eisenhower coattails. It was in the Northeast that Republicans made their greatest House gains...
Adlai still clung to a narrow lead in Minnesota and Oklahoma. Stevenson carried Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia, but seemed likely in each case to end with narrower margins than in 1952. An irony of G.O.P. gains in the South was that they came largely from segregation-conscious white voters, while the G.O.P.'s civil-rights record was winning over Negro votes from Memphis to Miami...
...Missing only Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico JNorth Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont Virginia and Wyoming...