and consequently the smallest number during the Fourth Party System until that point (Al Smith would carry even fewer in 1928). Not a single county was carried by the Democrats in the Pacific section, where they had carried 76 in 1916. In the Mountain section Cox carried only thirteen counties, seven of them located in New Mexico bordering Texas, whereas Wilson carried all but twenty-one Mountain Section counties in 1916. At least one county was lost in every section in the Union and in every state except South Carolina and Mississippi. Eleven counties in Texas recorded a plurality for Ferguson. Wilson had won the support of Americans of German, Italian, Irish, or Jewish descent in the 1916 election, but Cox lost in all of those demographics and received less support from Jewish voters than Debs. Harding received support from over 90% of black voters. The distribution of the county vote accurately represents the overwhelming character of the majority vote. Harding received 60.35 percent of the total vote, the largest percentage in the Fourth Party System, exceeding Franklin D. Roosevelt's in 1932. Although the Democratic share was 34.13 percent, in no section did its voting share sink below 24 percent, and in three sections, the Democrats topped the poll. The Democratic Party was obviously still a significant opposition on national terms, even though Cox won only eleven states and had fewer votes in the electoral college than Parker had won in 1904. More than two-thirds of the Cox vote was in states carried by Harding. The distribution of the vote by counties, and the study of percentages in sections, states, and counties, seem to show that it was Wilson and foreign policies that received the brunt of attack, not the Democratic Party and the domestic proposals of the period 1896–1914. Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): Results by state Close states Margin of victory less than 1% (13 electoral votes): Kentucky, 0.44% (4,017 votes) Margin of victory less than 5% (12 electoral votes): Tennessee, 3.10% (13,271 votes) Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (10 electoral votes): Oklahoma, 5.50% (26,778 votes) Tipping point state: Rhode Island, 31.19% (52,401 votes) Statistics Counties with Highest Percentage of the Vote (Republican) McIntosh County, North Dakota 95.76% Leslie County, Kentucky 94.22% Sevier County, Tennessee 93.60% Sheridan County, North Dakota 92.98% Billings County, North Dakota 92.81% Counties with Highest Percentage of the Vote (Democratic) Chester County,