That's the result of a confusion of terms on my part. I was thinking of the Wide Awakes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes
Four hundred thousand young men joined up as Lincoln partisan Wide Awakes throughout the North in 1860.
Incidentally, your point about college-educated youths supporting Hoover over FDR doesn't demonstrate anything more than the fact that the college educated have always historically supported the GOP, even against Obama in 2008:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trum...graduates/
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Historically this was, probably, a function of income. All it shows is that collegiate youth in 1932 were of a kind with the self-selecting rich Republicans who convinced Reader's Digest that Landon would win in a walk four years later. There's no question that Roosevelt had the overwhelming backing of poor and working-class youths - that is to say, the vast majority of them. And it was this group that turned him into the Grey Champion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes
Four hundred thousand young men joined up as Lincoln partisan Wide Awakes throughout the North in 1860.
Incidentally, your point about college-educated youths supporting Hoover over FDR doesn't demonstrate anything more than the fact that the college educated have always historically supported the GOP, even against Obama in 2008:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trum...graduates/
Historically this was, probably, a function of income. All it shows is that collegiate youth in 1932 were of a kind with the self-selecting rich Republicans who convinced Reader's Digest that Landon would win in a walk four years later. There's no question that Roosevelt had the overwhelming backing of poor and working-class youths - that is to say, the vast majority of them. And it was this group that turned him into the Grey Champion.