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Mitch Lillard

During the 1930s, support for the Democratic Party surged in many northern urban states such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. These states had political organizations that would give people jobs in return for votes to a certain party. President Roosevelt’s new labor laws and work-relief programs aided the urban poor, and so many immigrants such as the Italians, Germans, polish, Irish, and many African Americans supported the Democratic Party. People in urban cities also supported him because he began to appoint many Jewish and roman Catholics to important government positions. Many people supported FDR because of his ideas to help the working man and he gained lots of respect and was supported by the nation’s 12 largest cities. I think that many urban populations had a right to respect and like the Democratic Party, because when FDR came into office he got more people jobs and helped to get the economy back up. The graph shows that while he was in office that the % of GNP in the federal deficit went up a substantial amount from 1936 to 1937 and stayed at a relatively constant rate until 1941.