1976: Carter picks Barbara Jordan as his running mate.

[Dancing with Myself]

The move would kill Carter in that era. The south was still very narrow minded in terms of black politicians and even if Carter still ran the same campaign he wouldn't have swept the South. Without our states he didn't have his heart of strategy left and that would have been it.  What northern and western states he would have had would have went away once he fell appart like in RL due to Playboy and being out campaigned by Ford.

Ford/Dole-333
Carter/Jordan-205

I'm maybe being a little generous to Carter by giving him Tennessee and Arkansas but I'd say besides that Ford would win a comfortable but not landslide win.

[Dancing with Myself]

Shua you was close to my original worst case map I came close to posting. Well done

I can see AIP getting a lot of votes in the deep south due to Lester Maddox being on the ticket, he could have a bit of fresh air to attack Carter as they didn't like each other from the time Carter was governor. I could see him maybe passing Carter in Alabama if Wallace endorsed him. That's a possibility (maybe more distant than in 68 or 72,) that he wouldn't support Jimmy if he picked her. But than again he was sociable with Chisholm so who knows.

Interesting scenario though.