Hoover

 

During the first years of the Great Depression, Republican President Herbert Hoover remained convinced that the economy would correct itself. He had no plan and offered no way out. He was dour. He didn't relate to common people, many of whom went to bed hungry. But almost 40% voted for him in 1932. 

Why?

Hoover voters had many reasons, but maybe the main one was that the Democrats had favored the wrong side in the Civil War, about 70 years before. That mattered more than lunch and dinner.