Did Wallace torpedo Nixon's "Southern Strategy" in 68?

[MIKESOWELL]

Your looking at 1968 through a modern lens. In 1968, the GOP was still the minority party in the South, although they had been making inroads there since the early 1950s. Eight years earlier, Nixon was competing with Kennedy for the black vote. Nixon's Southern Strategy really paid off in 1972, and after the Jimmy Carter aberration, for the GOP in general from 1980 onwards, starting from the presidential level downwards.