1928 United States presidential election in Washington (state) county in Washington – and indeed along with five counties in California the first Democratic wins since that election in any county within the three Pacific States of Washington, Oregon and California. The extent of anti-Catholic sentiment in the progressive Pacific Northwest can be seen in that Washington State was the fourth most Republican in the nation during this election, voting 18.33 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large and less Republican than only Maine, Michigan and Kansas. Only in 1904 has Washington State been so Republican relative to the nation as a whole, and then there was a
Seaboard Air Line Railroad the South, helped organize the SAL and served as chairman of SAL's executive council. On June 3, 1900, through service from New York to Tampa, Florida, was inaugurated, with trains operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad from New York to Washington, D.C.; by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad from Washington to Richmond; and by the Seaboard from Richmond to Tampa, an arrangement that lasted until the creation of Amtrak in 1971. On July 1, 1900, the Seaboard formally assumed operation of the Georgia and Alabama, the FC&P and the Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf railroads. In 1903, the FC&P, which