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During the 1928 election, a Protestant backlash in the South due to anti-Catholicism led several southern states to vote Republican for the first time ever, helping to propel Hoover to the presidency.1. True2. False

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Answer: 1. True

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Herbert Hoover defeated Democrat Al Smith. He was a Roman Catholic, suffered politically from anti-Catholic prejudice. Hoover won the 1928 election brilliantly. All the sentence is true.

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