Nixon vs. Reagan landslide

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Blue is a state where Reagan did better than Nixon, Red is a state where Nixon did better than Reagan. Light shade means 0-5 points better, medium shade represents 5-10 points better, dark shade represents 10 points better or more.

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Nixon's worst Southern state was Kentucky, where he got 63% of the vote.  Reagan's best Southern state was Florida, where he got 65% of the vote.  No candidate of either Party will get Nixon's numbers in the South for a very long time.

Was Nixon's strength in the South due to even stronger support among Southern whites or did he get a large share of the black vote?

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Yeah, and Harding wasn't lucky when ran against an extremely unpopular administration, Johnson wasn't lucky when he rode off JFK sympathy and faced an extremist, and Nixon wasn't lucky to get an opponent who had to withdraw his VP and was so far to the left he was bound to lose.

Just lucky? What a farce.