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In reply to the discussion: Ed Schultz EXPOSES Cause Of Racism In The South [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"who was it who voted for Nixon?"
In 1972 , it was basically ALL 50 STATES, except Massachusetts and Washington DC. It was 2.8 million people in Illinois, and 4.2 million people in the deep south state of New York. And even further south, it was 61% of the voters in Maine and even 63% of the voters in that hotbed of racist conservatism - Vermont.
The same was true in 1980.
Who voted for Reagan? Not just southern states like Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia (whoops, not Georgia), but also conservative southern states, like, like, Wisconsin, and New York, and Maine, and Vermont and Michigan and Oregon and Washington.
Basically ALL 50 STATES voted for Reagan in both 1980 and 1984, except Minnesota, Hawaii, West Virginia, Washington DC, Georgia, Maryland and Rhode Island. Even Taxachusetts voted for Reagan in 1980 - those racist bastards, fugging southerners ( )
Looking at Nixon in 1968, which was a lot closer than 1972 or 1980 or 1984 (except by the electoral college) Nixon still managed to win such southern states as Oregon, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Vermont, New Hampshire and Delaware. The electoral college was lopsided because Wallace took five southern states. States, which incidentally all voted for Carter in 1976, and three of which were won by Clinton in 1992, and two in 1996.
So Salon is full of crap there, and a special shout out to Dave Leip for having the facts readily available to me http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html