# The American Presidency Project: Fun Site With Historical Electoral Maps (And More!)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-presidency-project-fun-site-with-historical-electoral-maps-and-more/636943>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 6, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-presidency-project-fun-site-with-historical-electoral-maps-and-more/636943 "2012-10-06T22:39:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-presidency-project-fun-site-with-historical-electoral-maps-and-more/636943/1 "2012-10-06T22:39:08Z")

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I happened to stumble across [The American Presidency Project](http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1920) with a history of all the Presidential Elections and the Red/Blue states, and how things have certainly changed over the years!

Use the drop down box to choose any year you wish and see how the electoral votes went that year.

Plus, there are some other interesting tibits to look over on this site. Enjoy.

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-presidency-project-fun-site-with-historical-electoral-maps-and-more/636943/2 "2012-10-07T04:45:56Z")

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Interesting so many people voted for the Republican candidate (Grant) in the South in 1868, was Horatio Seymour that bad?

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-presidency-project-fun-site-with-historical-electoral-maps-and-more/636943/3 "2012-10-07T05:46:15Z")

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> [@Sitnam](#):
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> Interesting so many people voted for the Republican candidate (Grant) in the South in 1868, was Horatio Seymour that bad?

A lot of Southern whites couldn’t vote, and a lot of Southern blacks, all of a sudden, could. So it’s not that he was a bad candidate. It’s just that most Southern Democrats were disenfranchised.

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**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-presidency-project-fun-site-with-historical-electoral-maps-and-more/636943/4 "2012-10-07T05:51:35Z")

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> [@Captain\_Amazing](#):
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> It’s just that most Southern Democrats were disenfranchised.

Is that true? I thought that once a state had regained its Congressional Seats and electoral votes, only former confederate officers were disenfranchised.