The power of positive imagery: the 1964 Electoral Map

[Richardo]

If you can visualize it, you can achieve it....Ommmmmmmmmmmmmm :hippie:

"Past is prologue, Gwen" - Joe Biden, October 2008


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/9/92/20080625220526!1964_Electoral_Map.png :patriot:

[supernova]

1. That is fucking beautiful

I think that's the first time I've ever seen the 1964 results laid out in modern topology.

[Richardo]

5. Notice how much the votes per state have changed - NY was still > CA

The PNW was a low-vote zone. Pretty interesting.

[Chichiri]

12. Heh. Minnesota -- 10 in '64, 10 today.

I love this state.

[bluestateguy]

2. That must have been one fun election night

And the last true Democratic landslide in history.

[RollWithIt]

3. I really wish we could figure out a way to get Texas back into play... lol

If Texas was a Battleground state, we'd have every election in the bag!

[phillysuse]

4. Put a Texan on the ticket

Who knows, maybe Senator Rick Noriega will run in 2016.

[Richardo]

6. A real Texan, not some Connecticut Yankee transplant

[AspenRose]

15. That was what I was thinking

I think he's being groomed for higher office.

[bluestateguy]

7. 2012

I don't think we have any choice but to try, as they will gain 3 or 4 EV's.

Be patient. The Hispanic population is only going up in that state.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Wow, that's a work of art.

Complete with a matching Hawaii and Alaska!

[Arugula Latte]

9. Okay -- That blows my whole "the south was Democratic until the 70s" stereotype

I guess that damn negro-lover :eyes: was just too much for many of those deep southerners to take.

[Richardo]

11. That was the genesis of Nixon's "southern strategy"

The south WAS overwhelmingly Democratic at the time, but only as a relic of Civil War antipathy to the GOP as the Party of Lincoln - they were virtual if not actual Dixiecrats, and included Jesse Helms, Phil Gramm, and others of that ilk.

I think 1964 showed Nixon and the GOP that the South could be 'turned' if they emphasized the 'cultural' (read 'racial') commonality between the right wing of the GOP and the segregationists.

[JeffR]

10. Beautiful.

5th rec.

[occe]

13. Love it

Inspiring thanks for posting :thumbsup:

[AspenRose]

14. Wow

Even Utah. Tennessee. Kentucky. FLORIDA.

*sigh*