Although Hoover managed to flip only Houston County – where he was the only Republican victor until Mitt Romney in 2012 – and heavily populated Davidson and “Little Confederacy” Sullivan Counties where he was the first Republican victor since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868, due to a powerful Prohibitionist anti-Catholic vote he gained very strongly compared to Coolidge‘s 1924 showing in many white counties that remained Democratic, and this added to the mountain and Highland Rim GOP vote ensured Hoover won the state.