Living in the suburbs and being a hick is contradictory as the term "hick" refers people who live in rural areas.
Trust me, there is a cultural "hick" element in those suburbs you will not find in any other part of the country. Certainly the southern suburbs are racist either way.
Also, TVA Democrats WERE Wallace voters for the most part
Well yeah. I never said otherwise.
You also conveniently forgot to mention Arkansas
Well Reagan lost Pulaski County so that kind of ruins the narrative.
SW Louisiana
Linguistic/cultural differences. But keep in mind Wallace won nearly every county in LA in 1968 and most of them went to Reagan.
SE Texas
Several of of these counties voted for Humphrey in 1968.
Northern Florida
Spillover from GA. Thin margins as well. Note that the central Florida Wallace counties voted for Reagan easy.
Georgia
Native son effect.
and chunks of Alabama, Mississippi
I'm seeing an obvious TVA/black effect in those states. Most of the Wallace vote clearly went to Reagan.
South Carolina
Well, Wallace didn't do well in SC in the first place. I will concede that the state had a different pattern from others, probably because there wasn't much Wallace support in the first place.
North Carolina
I'm mostly just seeing geographic variances among Wallace voters.
and Virginia
Where majority of the Wallace counties voted for Reagan.
that can't necessarily be explained away by the black vote. Its pretty obvious that most of the rural Wallace vote was going to Carter in 1980, especially factoring in 12 years of generational turnover.
No, it's pretty clear a majority of the Wallace vote went to Reagan. By a landslide? No, but it was clearly the trend.
