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Show ELECTORAL VOTE "ZONES" This is the way the states, which will cast 531 electoral votes, may be divided (more or less arbitrarily) geographically: (A vote of 266, or a majority of the whole number of 531, will be required for the election of the nominee who will' assume the Presidency March 4, 1929.) New England (6 states, 44 votes) : Connecticut 7, Maine 6, Massachusetts 18, New Hampshire 4, Rhode Island 5, Vermont, 4. "Middle Atlantic" (5 states, 108 votes) : Delaware 3, Maryland 8, Pennsylvania 38, New Jersey 14,. New York 4o. "Solid South" (10 states, 114 votes) : Alabama 14, Arkansas Ark-ansas 9, Florida 6, Georgia 14, Louisiana 10, Mississippi 10 North Carolina 12, South Carolina 9, Texas 20, Virginia 12. "Border States" (4 states, 51 votes) : Kentucky 13, Missouri 18, Tennessee 12, West Virginia 8. "Southwest" (3 states, 16 votes) : Arizona 3, New Mexico 3, Oklahoma 10. "Lake States" (4 states, 67 votes) : Indiana 15, Michigan Michi-gan 15, Ohio 24, Wisconsin 13. "Corn Belt" (7 states, 82 votes): Illinois 29, Iowa 13, Kansas 10, Minnesota 12, Nebraska 8, North Dakota 5, South Dakota 5. "Mountain States" (6 states, 24 votes) : Colorado 6, Idaho 4, Montana 4, Nevada 3, Utah 4, Wyoming 3. Pacific Coast (3 states, 25 votes) : California 13, Oregon Ore-gon 5, Washington 7. . The ten states of the "Solid South" cast the largest group of votes 114. The "Middle "Atlantic" group is next in strength with 108 votes. The "Corn "Belt" states, seven in number, have 82 votes. The four industrial states of what was once known as the "Middle West" (before the political title of "Corn Belt" became attached to the other states of the old "Middle West") all border on the Great Lakes and a part of their problems (as thev will be stressed to the delegates both in Kansas Citv and Houston) is similar in a marked degree to those of the "Corn Belt" states. These four states have a intino- strength of 67. The "Solid South" has been uniformly Democratic since the era of "reconstruction" passed completely away. Its 1 votes are claimed by the Democrats every four yeau, and there is never any disposition by the foremost G. O P. fe d rs of the nation to dispute this claim. The Democratic nominee must win 152 additional votes in the rest of the country to be elected. |