States that last voted Democratic (for POTUS) in the 1970s:
Texas
Mississippi
South Carolina
Alabama
... 1960s:
Alaska
Kansas
Utah
Nebraska (at large)
Idaho
Wyoming
North Dakota
South Dakota
Oklahoma
And of course, the converse:
States that last voted Republican (for POTUS) in the 1980s:
California
Vermont
New York
Maine (at large)
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
Illinois
Oregon
Washington
Hawaii
... 1970s:
Minnesota
I truly wonder how many lifetimes it would take for some of these states to vote the other way and what kind of coalitions could emerge in the future... lol
Many of the states that last voted Republican in 1972, 1984, and 1988 will vote for Donald Trump easily in 2024.
... other than Minnesota and maybe Maine in some landslide, wut.