SInNYC
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« on: January 24, 2021, 11:48:18 AM » |
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I dont think it was wrong. All of Obama08, Obama12, and Biden20 would have won without a single Dixie elector, even if you count VA as Dixie. I would also argue that Obama08 was an example of Whistling Past Dixie, since it led to CO/NM becoming solid D.
Back then, the conventional wisdom was that Ds needed to nominate a southerner to win, and even the primaries were stacked to the south - Super Tuesday was created in 1988 as a regional southern primary early in the cycle. And then Obama won with a non-southern veep.
The Dixie strategy then was to appeal to the Bubba vote. Younger less racist voters have since moved to parts of the south, so circumstances change of course.
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