Nebraska) this change has for a full generation been the working problem of practicing politicians of both parties. In general. and for reasons quite apart from faith. most Catholics have voted Democratic. They have voted Democratic because when they arrived as immigrants in the large industrial cities they found the national political machinery at the time of their arrival in the hands of Republicans who distrusted big cities. Catholic immigrants entered. naturally. into the party that sought and cultivated their votes. the Democratic. Not only did they enterwithin a period of fifty years they had come to lead and possess the Democratic Party in a bloc of states that stretched from New England to Illinois. In New York State. for example. in a recent year. of sixtytwo counties in the state. the Democratic County Committeemen in fiftyseven were Catholic.
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Generalization that most Catholics vote Democratic.