How did Larry Hogan Sr. become executive of PG County back in the 1980s?
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Anonymous
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Gov Hogan's father, Larry Hogan, Sr., was the republican executive of PG County from 1978 to 1982. How the heck did that happen?
I was reading old news articles and it said that PG was heavily Democratic back in the 1970s and 1980s. The black population seems to have been around 58% in PG back in 1980, so it wasn't like the county was still white only back then. Any armchair political historians have insights? |
Anonymous
| No insights, but I’m surprised that the news articles that you read didn’t provide any information that was relevant to your question. I’ll add another question: who else was running? Voters pick the best candidate from the available options. |
Anonymous
| Could a Republican pull it off today? The Black vote for Republicans increased for Trump. |
Anonymous
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He ran on an anti tax message and won 60 percent of vote vs incumbent Dem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/04/08/ten-things-to-know-about-trim/ |
Anonymous
| Many Black voters were kept from the polls by police back in the 70’s and 80’s I would imagine. |
Anonymous
Good article. Plus, there was a big corruption scandal in PG County in the years before his election, so the mood was anti-incumbency and anti-government. This was also a national trend, as Reagan won in 1980 on an anti-government message. Larry Hogan Sr. picked up all the white voters - long-time rural landowners and lower income whites who had fled urban DC. Black voters simply were not voting in proportion to their size of PG County electorate nor were they operating as an organized voting block at that time. |
Anonymous
In PG County in 1978? Not likely. Maryland didn't have full blown Jim Crow. This isn't Virginia or Alabama. |
Anonymous
Tell me you know nothing about the Prince George’s County Police without telling me you know nothing about them. |
Anonymous
Sure, from 6 percent to a whopping 8 percent. That won't magically make the race competitive. |
Anonymous
Absolutely. That poster has no idea what he/she is talking about. In the 1970's, the PG Police were committing Rodney King beat downs on Black people on a daily. With that said, I do not recall PG being that dominant Black majority in the 1970's. Black people trickled in during the 70's, but left in droves in the 80's during the drug wars in DC. |
Anonymous
| PG County was majority white till the early 90s, and was always kind of a backwoods rednecky kind of place. |
Anonymous
You're completely wrong. It was majority non-white in the 1980s: https://planning.maryland.gov/MSDC/Documents/county/prin.pdf |
Anonymous
Correction. You're completely wrong. It was slightly majority white in the 1980s: https://planning.maryland.gov/MSDC/Documents/county/prin.pdf |
Anonymous
I absolutely know that the PG County police were thugs. They had a federal consent degree. But were they preventing blacks from voting? Blocking them at the polls, administering literacy tests, organizing Klan rides to intimidate black voters, etc? No, duh. Get real. Stop conflating two issues. Blacks were not prevented from voting en mass in the late 70s by the PG County police. |
Anonymous
Jim Crow was the law of the land in Southern Maryland especially. Back then, I’d say that included Prince George’s County. Jim Crow affected other parts of the state as well, Baltimore in particular, through the 1960s. John Waters’ movies touch on that theme. And who could forget the Cambridge, Maryland riots of 1963, during a period when the rights of local African Americans were further curtailed. |