CaliGuy
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Had Hughes won in 1916, though, would he have been as dependent on "ethnic votes" as Wilson was?BTW, one thing to remember: by 1920 there were over 600,000 first and second generation Czechs in the United States. They were especially numerous in Chicago and suburbs like Berwyn and Cicero. (When I visited the Berwyn Public Library a few years ago it still had a Czech-language book section.) So apart from his sympathy for small, Slavic peoples against Germans, Wilson (or any other president) would have domestic political reasons not to ignore the national aspirations of the Czechs.