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 Corporation prices rose dramatically from $116 to $387 per share. Rick Hoffman, CEO of the company's Seaboard Farms subsidiary, responded that "there were no programs that Seaboard solicited by the state that did not already exist for other new businesses.", and that much of the money "Time" claimed was earmarked for Seaboard did not actually benefit the company. In 1996, Seaboard bought the sugar plantation and refinery San Martin de Tabacal, in Salta, Argentina, and immediately fired 6,000 workers. Many of them were members of the Ava Guaraní and Kolla indigenous communities, who maintain a claim to ancestral lands they have