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RFayette
Junior Chimp
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« on: July 11, 2016, 01:23:04 AM » |
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A few big factors:
1. After World War 2, the South got considerably wealthier, and as such, many people who used to vote Democratic on economic issues no longer felt compelled to.
2. In 1964, a Democratic President (LBJ) pushed through a civil rights law, which alienated many white Southerners; after this, white Southerners voted Republican in every Presidential election, including 1976 (in which black voters allowed Carter to carry many Southern states despite losing whites quite handily, especially in MS/AL).
3. Nixon/Reagan helped push Southerners into the GOP fold with a message of a strong military, tough-on-crime stances, and "states' rights" (which could mean many different things).
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