Well certain states that hardly ever voted Democratic went Democratic for the first time like California, Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maine, Delaware and seem to have stuck that way. Which is somewhat realigning, I suppose.
I think many of the trends that manifested itself were slowly getting their start in 1992 with NoVA, Bay Area burbs, Philly burbs, So. FL becoming more and more D.
The Southern eV's were totally won on personal appeal however.
You forgot New Hampshire. However, unlike the others, NH is more of a battleground.
New Hampshire voted for Bush in 2000. As for the topic question, while this year's election had EV and PV totals, and number of states won similar to 1992, more states actually voted the same way in 2008 as they did in 2000 and 2004 more than any previous election. So that would point to 2000 as being more of a realigning election, especially in reference to regional and urban-rural voting patterns.
