a former Confederate state since 1876. Later returns, however, gave Cox a larger win than Woodrow Wilson had gained in 1916. As it turned out, Cox would carry the state comfortably, and North Carolina would prove the state that most resisted the anti-Wilson trend, with Cox losing fewer than 3 percentage points on Wilson and Polk County even switching from voting for Republican Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 to voting for Cox. Results Results by county Notes References North Carolina 1920 1920 North Carolina elections