Illinois Presidential Voting History

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  • @jameskpolkastronomyhistory5984
    @jameskpolkastronomyhistory5984 Рік тому +40

    Went from a Dem stronghold to a Rep stronghold back to a dem stronghold

    • @Me-dp9jz
      @Me-dp9jz Рік тому

      Maybe eventually back up a republican stronghold

    • @stevenplayzzz172
      @stevenplayzzz172 Рік тому +2

      @@Me-dp9jz in a few decade New York will be red and Texas will be blue

    • @RandomVidsforthought
      @RandomVidsforthought Рік тому +1

      ​@@stevenplayzzz172 NYC still holds much sway in every election

    • @noahhumbard724
      @noahhumbard724 Рік тому

      @@RandomVidsforthoughtTrue butt parties do change if the Republican Party reaches a point of not being able to win they will shift their strategy a party that doesn’t change is only heading to a grave. If they shifted there platform and message and made a more pro urban agenda I see states opening up parties will always go where the votes are eventually the democrats used to be a rural party and now a-days they are a urban party if the republicans can’t win period their shift their message and focus on big states like California and New York and the like.

    • @RandomVidsforthought
      @RandomVidsforthought Рік тому

      @@noahhumbard724 I respect your opinion

  • @jackespinos7138
    @jackespinos7138 Рік тому +32

    Seeing Cook County red is cursed

  • @AFT_05G
    @AFT_05G 4 місяці тому +3

    Fun Fact:If it wasn't for Cook County Illinois would've been red since 2004 except for 2008.

  • @arbremonde13
    @arbremonde13 Рік тому +11

    There seems to have some north-south division in the state, with the GOP in the north and the Dems in the south, which they switched in the 21st century. That's very interesting

    • @jasonkoch3182
      @jasonkoch3182 Рік тому +8

      It’s not north-south. It’s urban-rural. Illinois is a large geographic state but the population is mostly in two pockets - the Chicago metropolitan area is by far the largest, and then the metro-east counties of St Louis. There are a few smaller pockets of population around the colleges - Champaign-Urbana, Bloomington-Normal, Carbondale, and Springfield. These areas are predominantly blue, although the metro-east is getting much more red leaning. The rest of the state has a small percentage of the population and is incredibly white, rural and relatively poor, and these folks vote the same way other white, rural, and poor parts of the country vote. It rarely matters in statewide elections - Chicago has so much of the population that unless there’s a massive vote split in the city, the rest of the state doesn’t matter. But local elections in these areas overwhelmingly go red.

    • @pwbmd
      @pwbmd Рік тому +5

      That's because for most of the 20th century -- especially the first half -- Democrats were the populist, agrarian, and more socially conservative party. Republicans were center-left. I mean, look at 1912. There's a reason normally Republican counties went for the Progressive candidate.

    • @alexanderhamilton2219
      @alexanderhamilton2219 Рік тому

      @@pwbmd They were not ‘center-left.’ The Republican part has always been right-leaning relative to the Democratic Party, even if the two parties’ specific positions on specific issues and/or cultural support base and/or public image are always changing.; regional shifts in politics throughout history are the result of a complex number of social, political, economic, legal, demographic, and cultural historical factors.
      Also, Theodore Roosevelt was a right-of-center Candidate in 1912; the word “progressive” in American politics at the time had a much broader and very different definition than it does today. Let me put it this way: Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft were both unambiguously more similar in their political ideology to each other than to Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft was unambiguously right-leaning in his political ideology relative to Woodrow Wilson; therefore, Theodore Roosevelt was unambiguously right-leaning in his political ideology relative to Woodrow Wilson. It’s that simple.

    • @alexanderhamilton2219
      @alexanderhamilton2219 Рік тому

      @@pwbmd Theodore Roosevelt was a right-of-center Candidate in 1912; the word “progressive” in American politics at the time had a much broader and very different definition than it does today. Let me put it this way: Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft were both unambiguously more similar in their political ideology to each other than to Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft was unambiguously right-leaning in his political ideology relative to Woodrow Wilson; therefore, Theodore Roosevelt was unambiguously right-leaning in his political ideology relative to Woodrow Wilson. It’s that simple.
      Furthermore, Wilson was also a “progressive candidate” in both political ideology and self-identification. The reason why Roosevelt momentarily formed a new political party was because he wanted to run for president after losing the 1912 republican primary, and the reason why he called it the “Progressive Party” was to signify his political leanings WITHIN the scope of the Republican Party at the time. He was NOT the only “progressive candidate” in the 1912 election, and ge was certainly not the “most progressive” or most left-leaning candidate.

    • @alexanderhamilton2219
      @alexanderhamilton2219 Рік тому +1

      There was no “switch” in the north-south division. Rural Northern Illinois is still Republican-leaning; urban southern-Illinois is still Democrat-leaning. Also; most of the “north-south split” came from the fact that Northern Illinois was disproportionately white Protestant whereas Southern and central Illinois (with the exception of the far southern part of the state) were disproportionately white Catholic. (St Louis area and the Illinois River area especially so.)

  • @DannyNguyen-zu4zb
    @DannyNguyen-zu4zb Рік тому +8

    You should do Washington and Oregon next

  • @patrickc3419
    @patrickc3419 Рік тому +4

    3:51-3:56 Holy crap!! I know Nixon clobbered McGovern in 1972; but I’m not from Illinois. What was that single blue county in the south?

    • @canithyre2626
      @canithyre2626 Рік тому +1

      Massachusetts

    • @patrickc3419
      @patrickc3419 Рік тому

      @@canithyre2626 No no; I know that Massachusetts was the only state that went for McGovern; but I’m asking the single county in the southern part of Illinois that went for him; what was that?

    • @ashtoncollins868
      @ashtoncollins868 Рік тому +1

      @@patrickc3419 Jackson County

  • @johnnybodigs2452
    @johnnybodigs2452 11 місяців тому +2

    Wow; never knew until just now that Sangamon County (Springfield) never voted for Lincoln! 😳

  • @adcgdsin9320
    @adcgdsin9320 9 місяців тому +1

    I find it fascinating that other than the 1828 and 1832 elections, IL voted more Democratic in the 2008 election than in any other election to this day. It was even more Democratic than the 1936 and 1964 elections (they were both Democratic landslides/near-sweeps).

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G 3 місяці тому

      2008 was a massive political re-alingment in my opinion, maybe for the first time in history Democrats actually financially outspent Republicans and got more donations from large corporations and billionaires.
      Today, you have this weird Democrat coalition of rich neoliberal/neocon elite and literal socialists who despise each other.

  • @patrickc3419
    @patrickc3419 Рік тому +3

    Illinois: The Land of Lincoln. How ironic is that?

    • @basil9973
      @basil9973 Рік тому

      Not truthfully, because of the party's ideological flip after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lincoln was progressive, and the Democrats are the party of progressivism now.

    • @patrickc3419
      @patrickc3419 Рік тому +1

      @@basil9973 I think it’s fair to say there were certainly more distinct factions within both GOP and Democratic parties, with sizable numbers of conservatives, moderates & liberals in both. That really started to wane in the mid-1990s, and is now nearly non existent. Susan Collins and Joe Manchin are the exceptions not the rules. Honestly, going back to that (factions within both parties) would be the best thing politically for this country. It would absolutely force both parties to work together and stuff would actually get done.

  • @lincolnz2644
    @lincolnz2644 Рік тому +11

    My Home State!!!

  • @GSquid92
    @GSquid92 Рік тому +1

    Pls do Michigan

  • @maikotter9945
    @maikotter9945 10 місяців тому

    ein Beitrag des Montages, 26. Februar 2024
    Is Illinois the most average US state?

  • @Tactical_Nuke0
    @Tactical_Nuke0 Рік тому +1

    nice

  • @stevenplayzzz172
    @stevenplayzzz172 Рік тому +2

    It used to be competitve so was Colorado now it deep blue

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G 11 місяців тому +1

      It's blue because of Cook County.Rest of Illinois is 60-70% red.

    • @peterkennedey9869
      @peterkennedey9869 11 місяців тому +1

      @@AFT_05G You mean Crook county! Its the most corrupt county in the US!

  • @HTV315
    @HTV315 Рік тому +1

    IT’s Illinoi
    Not Illinois

  • @MoonlightXYZ
    @MoonlightXYZ 11 місяців тому +1

    4:15 the last good IL decision.

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G 3 місяці тому

      Eh, i'd argue 1984 would be the last.Bush Sr. , just like his son, was a terrible guy he was elected only because he was Reagan's VP.

  • @andrewreiss2811
    @andrewreiss2811 Рік тому +4

    I don't think illinois will ever go red ever again.That state is cursed.

    • @Brad02526
      @Brad02526 Рік тому +1

      It has a chance, so does NY, VA, OR.

  • @cyruscheng499
    @cyruscheng499 Рік тому +4

    1960 was rigged in Chicago

  • @パチンコホール理解者

    Democrat 538

  • @griffinclary61
    @griffinclary61 Рік тому +8

    It's a communist strong hold

    • @Spawnofme
      @Spawnofme Рік тому +10

      😂 your tears nourish the planet

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G Рік тому

      ​@@Spawnofme I mean he's not wrong, you Dems abused the word liberal so much that it lost all of it's meaning.