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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Who will Everett True vote for? (August 28, 1924) (lemmy.world)

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Find True Here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&rows=50&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=date

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Man it is wild to read about that election. Coolidge (R) v. John Davis (D) Davis' campaign was spoiled by Robert La Follette running as "Progressive". It was the first election that all Native Americans could vote in.

Davis and La Follette criticized the KKK, very active at the time, while Coolidge, classic republican, didn't say shit about it. The Republicans won huge and controlled the US until 1932. In 1929, the Great Depression kicked off, which probably explains some of the latter discontent.

The Republicans have been very good about making sure a Democrat takes the fall for their economic terrorism ever since though! Truly the more things change, the more they stay the same.