The 1924 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the

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which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for

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had been strongly Democratic-leaning due to that party’s adoption of free silver in this silver-mining state; however, in 1920

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carried every county in the state. In the following few years the Ku Klux Klan grew extremely rapidly in Colorado and by the time of the next election it was close to taking control of the state government. The Klan was aided by structural problems in Colorado’s agriculture and fear of Catholicism embedded in Mexican immigration and the traditional Catholicism of the Hispanic south-central counties. As it turned out, the strong economy ensured that incumbent President Calvin Coolidge would have little trouble carrying the state, despite the strong third-party candidacy of Wisconsin Senator

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, who was opposed to the powerful Klan and struggled in the anti-Catholic

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has voted for a Republican presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David
‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’
''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016

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1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...

1924 Colorado elections