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Wallace also splits the Democratic vote, helping Nixon carry a number of Southern states.

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What was controversial about this?  Wallace was CLEARLY to the left of Nixon on fiscal issues, and Nixon was not willing to compromise his pro-civil rights views enough to win the Dixiecrat vote, so Humphrey and Wallace left Nixon the leftovers (i.e., not the old Southern Democrats and not the Black vote), which were mostly moderate suburban voters who helped usher in the new, much more Republican, South.