Which of the following helps explain Harry Truman's victory in the presidential
election of 1948?
-Recognition of the new State of Israel kept Jewish voters loyally
Democratic.
-Antilynching legislation that he guided through Congress weakened
southern racism and won Truman the support of many white
Southerners.
-Conservative Republicans voted for Democrat Harry Truman because
they supported his proposals for national health insurance and
federal aid to education.
-Big labor overwhelmingly supported Truman because he frequently
invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to help striking workers get their