minority parties tend to factionalize and after 1936 the gop split into a conservative faction (dominant in the west and midwest) and a liberal faction (dominant in the northeast)—combined with a residual base of inherited progressive republicanism active throughout the century. in 1936, kansas governor alf landon and his young followers defeated the herbert hoover faction. landon generally supported most new deal programs, but carried only two states in the roosevelt landslide with his moderate campaign. the gop was left with only 16 senators and 88 representatives to oppose the new deal, with massachusetts senator henry cabot lodge jr. as the sole victor over a democratic incumbent.