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United Press International
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—When Alfred E. Smith, a Catholic, ran for President in 1928, less than 10 per cent of the American people were Catholic.
Today about 23 per cent are Catholic.
THE PROPORTION of Catholics in the total population ranges from less than 1 per cent in North Carolina to about 60 per cent in Rhode Island. Catholics and non-Catholics are about evenly distributed in Massachusetts. In the other 48 states Catholics are a minority.
The Catholic population is not evenly distributed. About 40 per cent of the nation's Catholies live in nine New England and Mid-Atlantic states. There are relatively few in the South.
Tuesday. Oct. 25, 1960
These percentages were derived by comparing the government's 1960 census count of population with the Catholic population figures published this year by the Official Catholic Directory. No government figures are available because the Census Bureau does not compile statistics on church affiliation.
BOTH CANDIDATES have appealed to the voters not to allow religion to influence their selection of a President.
But politicians of both parties are assuming that some non-Catholics will vote against and that some Catholics will vote for the Democratic candidate, Sen. John F. Kennedy, because he is a Catholic.
For this reason the politicians have been paying close attention to statistics on the number of Catholics and non-Catholics in each state.
HERE ARE some of the facts which they have been pondering: There are eight states in which Catholics now comprise about one-third of the population. These states will cast 115 of the 537 electoral votes for President.
There are 13 states with less than 10 per cent Catholics. These states have 118 electoral votes.
AMONG THE STATES where one-third of the people are Catholic, only three — Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Louisiana — are traditionally Democratic.
Three other states where Catholics comprise one-third or more of the population — New York, New Jersey and Wisconsin — usually are battleground states. They have voted Republican in six of the last 10 presidential elections.
Smith was the only Democrat presidential candidate in this century who failed to carry North Carolina and, except for Adlai Stevenson, was the only Democratic candidate since 1872 who failed to carry Virginia.
THE OTHER TWO — Connecticut and New Hampshire — voted Republican seven times out of the last.10.
Following is a state-by-state chart showing the proportion of Catholics in the total population:
Per Cent Catholic Population
Electoral Votes Per Cent Population
NEW ENGLAND
4 Rhode Island 61
16 Massachusetts 50
8 Connecticut 45
4 New Hampshire 37
3 Vermont 31
5 Maine 27
MID-ATLANTIC
16 New Jersey 38
45 New York 35
32 Pennsylvania 31
9 Maryland (A)
3 Delaware (A)
8 West Virginia (B)
SOUTH-BORDER
10 Louisiana 34
10 Florida (A)
24 Texas (A)
12 Virginia (B)
8 Oklahoma 4
11 Alabama (B)
8 Mississippi 3
8 Arkansas 2.5
11 Tennessee 2
12 Georgia 1.5
8 South Carolina 1.3
10 Kentucky 1
14 North Carolina 0.9
(153) MIDWEST
12 Wisconsin 32
27 Illinois 29
11 Minnesota 25
20 Michigan 25
4 North Dakota 24
25 Ohio 21
4 South Dakota 19
6 Nebraska 17
13 Missouri 16
10 Iowa 16
13 Indiana 13
8 Kansas 13
(32) MOUNTAIN
4 New Mexico (C)
4 Arizona (C)
4 Montana 23
6 Colorado 18
3 Nevada 18
3 Wyoming 15
4 Idaho 6
4 Utah 5
(47) PACIFIC
32 California 21
9 Washington 12
6 Oregon 9
(6) NEW STATES
3 Hawaii 31
3 Alaska 12
(B) -Less than 10 per cent. For Alabama. 3 per cent or less.
(A) - Falls within range of 10 to 20 per cent. Percentage can't be computed because Catholic statistics traverse state lines.
Ammann. It well above 20 per cent. In New Mexico, it is possible that Catholics equal or exceed one-third of the population.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — About 64 million Americans will vote Nov. 8 to elect a new President, members of Congress and thousands of state and local officials.
64 Million People Will Vote Nov. 8
The entire world will be watching the outcome of the contest between Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican presidential candidate, and Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee.
At issue is the question of which candidate is best equipped to lead the United States during the next four years in competition with the Soviet Union.
A sub-surface issue of potential importance is Kennedy's Catholic faith, which has revived old passions in some heavily Protestant areas, but may draw votes to him in heavily Catholic districts.
The election will be the first in which Alaska and Hawaii will have a vote. The votes of the new states will raise the magic number needed by the winner to 269 — a majority of the electoral votes cast by all of the states.
Each state casts an electoral vote — on a winner take all basis — equal to the total number of its U.S. Senate and House members. The biggest prizes are New York (45 electoral votes), Pennsylvania and California (22 each), Illinois (27), Ohio (25), Texas (24) and Michigan (20).
Anyone special in the business BOSTON — (UPI) — Urging motorists to be careful, the automobile Legal Association said today: "Drive as if you were early for an appointment with your dentist."
Anyone Speed to the Dentist?
News Briefs
MINNEAPOLIS-A publisher of religious tracts said yesterday that anti-Catholic pamphlets currently made up the bulk of his business. Cyrus Osterhus, whose firm ranks among the largest in the nation, said the demand for anti-Catholic literature has increased 400 per cent in recent months.
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GARDEN CITY. N. Y.—Editor-publisher Alicia Patterson of Newday endorsed Sen. John F. Kennedy for the presidency. The paper supported President Eisenhower in 1952 and Adlai E. Stevenson in 1956.
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LAKE FOREST, Ill.—A noted nuclear physicist last night condemned some civil defense measures as a "waste of time." In a speech at Lake Forest College, Dr. Edward U. Condon, professor of physics at Washington University, St. Louis, said that bomb shelters and plans for mass evacuation from cities "is a delusion that can not possibly provide protection.
"There is no known protection against thermo-nuclear bombs," Condon said.
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MIAMI—Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. attacked critics of the Eisenhower administration's defense program today and declared that U.S. strength is "the greatest the world has ever known."
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LONDON—A calm-looking Queen Elizabeth landed here safely from Denmark today after two West German jets nearly collided in the air with her airplane.
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The newspaper said the bishops' ban, expressed in a pastoral letter read Sunday in churches throughout the island, was "a challenge to our form of government, which is based on freedom of worship and thought."
SAN JUAN—The newspaper El Mundo said today Puerto Rico's Roman Catholic bishops created a "grave disturbance" by forbidding Catholics to vote for Gov. Luis Munoz Marín's "Popular" Party.
PARIS — President Charles de Gaulle's regime weathered a censure motion in the National Assembly today and won reluctant approval to build an independent French nuclear striking force.
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MEXICO CITY—Cuban refugee circles here buzzed today with rumors that an armed invasion of Cuba is being prepared in nearby Guatemala.
Reports called "totally false" by Guatemalan Ambassador Humberto Garcia Galvez said an "invasion fleet" is massing in Amatique Bay and "hundreds of men" are training at Peten, near the Mexican border. An airport at Escuintla was said to have "been on a war footing for weeks."
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NEW YORK—Advertising and public relations executives along Madison Avenue favor Vice President Richard M. Nixon over Sen. John F. Kennedy by 2 to 1, according to a poll by Edwin B. Stern, advertising personnel specialist.
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Two KU textile design and weaving seminars featuring a well-known Swedish instructor are real sell-outs.
The popular loomist is Miss Malin Selander, head instructor from the Weaving School of Orebro, Sweden, on leave to conduct seminars and workshops in the United States and Canada.
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The author of two books published in the English language, "Swedish Handweaving" and "Weaving Patterns," she is internationally known for her unique color approach to weaving and her skillful blending of yarns and threads into unusual combinations.
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