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==Early history (1956-1950)==

The Republican Party in Massachusetts was the dominant party in the state for nearly seventy years from ([[1858]] through the [[1920s]]). Republican candidates routinely won the state governorship as well as most other state and Federal offices. The Republican dominance of Massachusetts slowly died in 1920's and 1930's as the predominantly Democratic Immigrant groups changed the traditionally Republican [[WASP]] Massachusetts into the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] Democratic majority state that it remains today. Additionally helping the Democratic take-over of Massachusetts, was high [[unionization]] of workers in the state, cuppled with the onset of the [[Great Depression]] and the rise of the [[New Deal]] Democrats. By the 1950's, most of the urban-suburban areas of Massachusetts were largely Democratic, leaving just a couple pockets of strongly Republican rural areas in [[Barnstable County|Barnstable]], Massachusetts]], [[Nantucket|Nantucket County, Massachusetts]], [[Dukes|Dukes County, Massachusetts]], [[Berkshire|Berkshire County, Massachusetts]], and [[Franklin County|Franklin County, Massachusetts]].

==The Late 20th Century (1950-1990)==