The AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW in November, 1925, contained a brief report* of a study and survey made in Delaware, Ohio, in connection with the 1924 presidential elections. This report was based on data sheets secured by interviewing over 4,000 individual residents of the community who were qualified voters. After the completion of these individual personal data the voters were separated from the non-voters by consulting the official poll books of the presidential election of November 4, 1924. The results were tabulated under the following heads: nativity, parentage, length of residence in the community, sex, age, race, family relationship, marital status, type of neighborhood, type of dwelling, education, religious affiliation and occupation. The percentage of voters and non-voters in each category made many interesting comparisons possible. The favorable attention given to the report by political scientists in many parts of the country seemed to bear out the belief of the author that the microscopic study of political units has value.g In the fall of 1948, it was decided to repeat the study using the same procedures and exactly the same data sheets for the same community examined twenty-four years before. The purpose of the 1948 survey was two fold: (1) to make comparisons again between' the various categories of voters, and (2) to make comparisons between the voting habits of voters in the same community now and twenty-four years ago. As in 1924 the personal solicitation in 1948 was done almost entirely by undergraduate students in political science at Ohio Wesleyan University. A group of advanced students under the supervision of members of the faculty was placed in charge of interviews in each precinct. Students were organized into canvassing teams for each precinct with a specially trained advanced student acting as captain. As in the earlier survey the student solicitors were cautioned not to be unduly aggressive in asking for information. Over 4,000 persons, eligible to vote, were interviewed. Since the estimated population of Delaware is about 9,500, the data sheets represent a fairly complete record of the voters of the community. Every precinct of the city was canvassed with equal thoroughness, although very naturally a number of voters could not be reached because of absence from home and for other reasons, and a very small number refused to give the requested information. The data sheets of the voters were separated from those of the non-voters by using the official poll books for the 1948 presidential election. It would be unfair, of course, to generalize from such a limited study. On the basis of this local survey, however, the most satisfactory voting records were found among (1) voters in their fifties and sixties (although those in the sixties