Dec 05, 2019 · Question 9 4 / 4 pts Who was the last Democrat to win the majority of the white Southern vote? Herbert Hoover Correct! Lyndon Johnson Ronald Reagan John Kennedy
Question 9 Who was the last Democrat to win the majority of the white Southern vote? Herbert Hoover Lyndon Johnson Ronald Reagan Correct! John Kennedy
Mar 02, 2020 · Question 9 2 / 2 pts Who was the last Democrat to win the majority of the white Southern vote? Herbert Hoover Correct! Lyndon Johnson
Feb 03, 2022 · All of the above Who was the last Democrat to win the majority of the white Southern vote? Herbert Hoover Lyndon Johnson Ronald Reagan Correct! John Kennedy
Wilson was the first Democrat to win a presidential election since 1892 and one of just two Democratic presidents to serve between 1861 (the American Civil War) and 1932 (the onset of the Great Depression). Roosevelt finished second with 88 electoral votes and 27% of the popular vote.
Republican President Theodore Roosevelt had declined to run for re-election in 1908 in fulfillment of a pledge to the American people not to seek a third term. Roosevelt had tapped Secretary of War William Howard Taft to become his successor, and Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan in the 1908 general election.
Roosevelt served as president from 1901 to 1909 as a Republican, and Taft succeeded him with his support. However, Taft's actions as president displeased Roosevelt, and Roosevelt challenged Taft for the party nomination at the 1912 Republican National Convention.
The Socialist Party renominated its perennial standard-bearer, Eugene V. Debs . The general election was bitterly contested by Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft. Roosevelt's " New Nationalism " platform called for social insurance programs, reduction to an eight-hour workday, and robust federal regulation of the economy.
Wilson's raw vote total was less than William Jennings Bryan totaled in any of his three campaigns. In only two regions, New England and the Pacific, was Wilson's vote greater than the greatest Bryan vote.