Despite problems in the state's large agricultural sector, La Follette did not have the appeal in Kansas he had in more northerly areas of the Midwest, as isolationism was much weaker in this largely Anglo-Saxon Protestant state and
Bryan-era pietist Democratic support struck a different cultural vein from La Follette's largely Catholic and Lutheran backers. Unlike the Bryanites, La Follette's base strongly opposed the
Ku Klux Klan, which was widely popular in Kansas, and was focused on farm cooperatives.
Kansas was won decisively by the
Republican Party candidate, incumbent President
Calvin Coolidge with 61.54 percent of the popular vote. The
Democratic Party candidate,
John W. Davis, garnered only 23.60 percent of the popular vote. La Follette, listed as an “Independent” on the Kansas ballot was not as successful as in the more northern Plains States due to Kansas being largely devoid of the
German- and
Scandinavian-Americans who were his primary support base. The Wisconsin Senator did not crack a third of the vote in any county, and Coolidge replicated Harding in
1920 and
Theodore Roosevelt in
1904 by sweeping all 105 counties in Kansas. ==See also==