Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avalanche was awesome in its force and fury. It crushed Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the entire Northeast, swept across Midwestern farmlands with a setback only in Missouri, shattered Democratic presidential hopes on the Pacific Coast and burst through traditional Democratic barriers in the South-where Ike carried Texas, Florida, Virginia, West Virginia. Kentucky. Tennessee and, unbelievably, Louisiana. It tore city after city-from Jersey City to Chicago to Montgomery-from the Democratic grasp. It cut across nearly all racial, religious, ethnic and economic lines. It gave Dwight Eisenhower a victory surging toward the 10 million plurality mark, with about...
Texas Democrats were torn between their liberal, moderate and conservative factions-and Ike won the state by 186,000. West Virginia Democrats suffered because of corruption charges against their state administration. But more than anything else, the Eisenhower showing in the South was attributable to the fact that voters rose above their civil-rights grievances and resentments to cast a solid vote of approval for Dwight Eisenhower as a world leader in a time of crisis...
Jewish votes in south Florida's big cities, it looked as if Ike would better his 1952 Florida lead of 90,000. Despite Democratic hopes that Texas, Tennessee and Virginia would return to the fold, Ike seemed headed for new triumphs in all those states. He led in Kentucky. As returns trickled in from the Midwest, scattered islands of resistance developed. In Michigan, thanks to Democratic Governor Mennen Williams' solid lead over G.O.P. Candidate Albert E. Cobo, Stevenson was ahead in heavily unionized Dearborn and Detroit. In scattered upstate precincts of Michigan and Wisconsin, resentful farmers were whittling...
Taylor got his first impetus toward history from eight great-aunts. Born in Bedford, Virginia, in 1899 to a northern father and a southern mother, he moved to Maplewood, N.J., at the age of one, but frequent visits back to Virginia enabled his aunts to bring him up in a fervor of Confederate sentiment. Strongly southern in feelings (his earliest published work, which appeared in a local paper when he was ten years old, was a pathetic poem on Lee's army), he become ambitious to rewrite the history of the Civil War "in a proper...
...Missing only Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico JNorth Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont Virginia and Wyoming...