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Religion As A Factor In The Defeat Of Alfred E. Smith In The Election Of 1928, Ronald Eugene Isetti
Religion As A Factor In The Defeat Of Alfred E. Smith In The Election Of 1928, Ronald Eugene Isetti
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The growing patriotism of the Catholic population, the Church's vigorous support of the “Social Gospel,” and the accommodation of Catholics to American democratic institutions -- all of these factors helped to make the Church of Rome more acceptable to the majority of Americans. Nonetheless, there was still a considerable amount of latent anti-Catholic feeling in the country, especially in the South. Therefore, when Alfred E. Smith, a Catholic, became the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928, animosity towards the Catholic Church, which hitherto had been submerged, came to the surface during the campaign.
Some people, especially Catholics, went so far as …