justfollowingtheelections
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« on: November 26, 2012, 11:13:03 PM » |
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1964 or 1968 was not a realigning election. Yes, the South gave the Democrats and LBJ the middle finger, but once a Southerner such as Carter or Clinton were on the ticket, the South would vote for the Democrats again. That tactic however didn't work in 2000 where Gore lost even his home state. The two parties despite trying hard to sound moderate had officially the two opposites in a very polarized country. Conservative Democrats became a rarity and Liberal Republicans became an oxymoron (Snowe and Collins are the last ones).
The map hasn't changed much since 2000. In 3 elections we have only seen a small number of states flip back and forth while the two parties have built a wall, the Democrats on the Northeast, the Great Lakes and the Pacific Coast and the Republicans in middle America and the deep South.
This is why 2000 was a real realigning election.
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