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Originally Posted by lvmensch
The strategy increased the Republican representation reasonably quickly. The trend was clear much earlier and continued until the Republicans dominated the segregationist block.
The time it took in no way changes the fact the segregioists of the 60s are in the 2010s almost all Republicans.
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Originally Posted by momonkey
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Originally Posted by lvmensch
It is of course there.
Take a look at the Presidental vote chart in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_...ategy.22_today
The segregationist south is solidly Republican. There are some states contested...Florida and Virginia but otherwise the classical south is a Republican preserve. |
How many times are we going to move the goal post?
In 1968, Wallace ran as an independent.
Nixon won pretty much everywhere except the South because of Wallace's regional appeal.
In 1972, Nixon won everywhere except MA and DC.
In 1976, Carter carried all the southern states.
In 1980, the only southern state Carter won was his home state of GA in what was otherwise a Reagan landslide.
In 1984, Regan won every state except Mondale's home state of MN.
In 1992, southern states were more or less evenly divided between Clinton and Bush Sr.
In 1996, we had basically the same story with Clinton and Dole splitting the southern states.
In 2000, we finally saw what has been the political lay of the land since with Gore winning the left-leaning North-Eastern states, several rust-belt states and a few West Coast states leaving fly-over country to Bush Jr.
In 2004, New Mexico was won by Bush, but except for that, 2004 was essentially identical to 2000.
In 2008, Obama flipped FL, VA, NC and a few Western states, but the rest of the map was unchanged.
Ditto 2012, and here we are with no discernable trend except that the North-East, MI, IL, WI, MN and the West Coast are blue and basically uncontested, the middle of the map is red and a few purple states decide the election.
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