Thank you Die Hard With a Vengence for the Chester A. Arthur answer. "Find out who the 21st president is." "Chester A. Arthur...did you know he was the collector of customs right here in New York?" Awesome!
Got the first seven and last six (hint for the early ones: Virginia and Massachusetts). Rest were mostly a crap shoot. C'mon this is way harder than some of my other leaders quizzes. Also, though I got it, was Bush Sr.'s power base really in Texas? I thought he was a Mass resident. I know the family has ties to many states. Not really important...
He was born in Massachusetts and raised in Connecticut, but started an oil company in Texas, and served as representative from there, and would live most of his life after entering politics in either DC or Texas.
Tough to say where his political "base" is though, as he never held elected office before becoming president. I most associate him with Kansas, so that answer made sense to me. Same with Trump. He's hated in New York and has less political power there than just about anywhere, but he never held office before being president, so it's still the place with which he is most associated. So I don't think the question is where Eisenhower was immediately before his presidency, but where he is most associated with. And that's Kansas.
Well, you'll get over a quarter of them just typing 'New York' or 'Ohio'. Throw Virginia and Massachusetts in and you'll get a decent score. Considering their populations, California and Texas are underperforming in the presidential stakes, particularly since Texas only got two and three quite recently.
and considering Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York were already states at the start of the country, as opposed to several decades down the line, it makes sense that there are more presidents based in those states
Guess no one wants to run for president from a political base waist-deep in potatoes and sugar beets...... When I'm old enough, I'm probably gonna run for president in the place I was born and raised:Idaho.
Hmm, let's see. Born in CT. Raised and attended school in both Midland, TX and Houston before finishing HS and college in Massachusetts. Got married in Texas. Both his daughters born in Texas. Was a pilot for the Texas National Guard. Was Governor of Texas from 1995-2000. Continues to live there to this day. Is that not enough Texas for you??
Generals are always tough, since they usually moved a lot and didn’t always have a base of representation in just one state. Taylor was living in Louisiana when he became president, but other places associate him with his native Kentucky, where he’s buried. Eisenhower was living in New York when he became president, and lived in Pennsylvania for a while afterwards, but is primarily associated with his home state of Kansas. Only Jackson is really well-associated with one state, Tennessee
Trump's political base ISN'T in New York. They hate him there, because he lived there they know him well. His political base is in the south where they don't know him as well
I went ahead and looked this up. His home state was New York when he ran in 2016, but in 2019 he moved his primary residence to Mar-a-Lago, which is in Florida. The Wikipedia page for the 2020 election lists Florida as his home state, with an added caveat including the residency change. Perhaps Florida could be an accepted answer?
I also agree that Florida should at least be an acceptable answer; 2024 will mark two elections in which Florida is his political base/center, as opposed to just one for New York in 2016.