Time out for Trivia....what's the longest a US state has gone "Red" in the GE?

[Bicoastal]

Since we're talking about all 50 states this year and not just Iowa and New Hampshire...what's the longest a State has *continously* voted electorally for the GOP candidate instead of the Democrat?

(The longest Blue state would be too easy--since Minnesota didn't go Reagan in '84. Ja, they've been voting for Democrats since 1976--32 years, you betcha.)

[Rockholm]

1. Utah?

[Zynx]

16. It has done it since 1964.

Vermont did it from 1856-1964.

[jackson_dem]

2. Virginia would be my guess. It has voted rethug ever since 1964

[IDemo]

4. Idaho as well.

[NoPasaran]

3. Total guess---New Hampshire

[jlake]

6. X

[King Coal]

5. 24 years.

[Zynx]

17. Try 108 years with Vermont.

[Pab Sungenis]

21. You're correct.

I apologize. Vermont does hold the title.

[MrSlayer]

7. Idaho has been Republican since 1968.

As has Virginia. Not sure if they are the longest though.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. 40 years

Arizona went Republican in every election from 1952 to 1992 inclusive. (Clinton won it in '96.)

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. arizona

voted Dem in 1948.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

11. Clinton won here in '96. nt

[Recursion]

10. Kansas, I think

Since 1860

[Hippo_Tron]

13. FDR won Kansas in 1932 and 1936

[Recursion]

15. Oops! Thanks. Only DC is a solid color throughout its history

I may be wrong here, too, but I think DC is the only electoral jurisdiction to solidly support one party in its whole electoral college history.

[Hippo_Tron]

29. Correct, Alaska is a close second

It has gone Democratic once, LBJ in 1964.

[Zynx]

14. Bunches of Dems have won Kansas. Bryan, Wilson, FDR, and Johnson.

[Zynx]

12. Vermont voted Republican every time it could until 1964.

[Hippo_Tron]

20. I think you win, Vermont went GOP from 1860-1964, one of two states FDR never won...

The other was Maine. But Wilson won Maine (largely due to Taft and Roosevelt splitting the vote).

[Zynx]

23. 1856 even. Go back and you'll find Vermont went from 1824-1964 before ever voting Democratic.

[Hippo_Tron]

24. Correct I just checked it. If you count the Whigs it went red from 1824-1964

[Recursion]

30. That's a good point: does Whig (and/or Federalist) count as "red"? nt

[Zynx]

31. Well, they're the non-Democratic Party. They count in my book.

[Recursion]

33. At this point I'm something of a Whig...

...since Jackson is probably my least favorite Dem president, and they ran essentially on the principle of fighting a unitary executive.

[Pab Sungenis]

37. Never mind.

Too early in the morning and I'm fighting the flu.

[Pab Sungenis]

18. Believe it or not....

...the answer is Pennsylvania!

If you count Roosevelt's run as the Progressive Party candidate in 1912, it went Republican every election from 1856 to 1932, a total of 19 straight elections or 78 years. It's actually only been reliably "blue" since Clinton won it in 1992.

[Zynx]

19. Vermont was 1856-1964. 108 years.

[Pab Sungenis]

22. I just acknowledged you were right

up-thread. Pennsylvania was a close second.

[Zynx]

25. Whoops. Sorry. PA is a close second, relatively speaking.

1860-1932. However, Vermont never voted for a Democrat between 1828 and 1964. 140 years. Damn.

[Bicoastal]

26. Awesome! Where did you find that out? (and an ANSWER to MY QUESTION)

You see, I was only looking at states that have been voting Republican AND STILL DO--and I didn't think it would be necessary to go all the way back to the 19th century to figure that out.

By my count, the States that have been Red since 1968 are--Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, both Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Alaska, and Virginia. Every one of these states voted for Johnson in 1964 and then Nixon 4 years later. Every other state has voted either Democratic or Independent since then, (Tell me if you think I skipped one!)

So the answer to MY question would be a 10-way tie for 40 years of Republican voting. BTW, since we're not looking just at blue states that are STILL Blue states, what's the record on the Democratic side?

[Zynx]

27. Uselectionatlas.org

[Pab Sungenis]

35. The Blue State record would be Georgia

which (except for 1864, which doesn't count for obvious reasons) went for a Democrat every year from 1852 to 1964.

[HeraldSquare212]

32. With all those boys who died in the Civil War, I guess the 'bloody shirt' waved for a long time.

Every town in Vermont has a statute to Civil War soldiers.

[Recursion]

34. Lest we forget how close we still are to the Civil War...

I'm 31.

My dad, when he was a kid, worked in the fields in my grandparents' (his parents') indigo and cotton farm. Out in the fields, he met a hand named "Manchild". He was called that because he was born before emancipation, and his mother didn't want to give him a name because she knew he would be taken from him.

We're a lot closer to those days than we think.

[Hippo_Tron]

28. Not counting the civil war (1854 election), longest blue state is Georgia

It went blue from 1844-1964, even during reconstruction.

[Pab Sungenis]

36. Georgia went Whig in 1848

voting for Zachary Taylor over Lewis Cass. But yes, it has the longest Democratic run in history, 112 years.