One of the biggest surprises of the 1948 presidential election came from Republican Iowa, the center of the farm belt. Iowa gave its ten electoral votes to Harry Truman. Five weeks before the 1952 election, this is the situation:
Background. Since Iowa became a state in 1846, it has gone Democratic in only six of 26 presidential elections. Only five of the state's 30 governors and only six of its 25 U.S. Senators have been Democrats. After swinging to Truman and electing Democrat Guy Gillette to the U.S. Senate in 1948, Iowa in 1950...
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