1968 Presidential Election:
Governor Oldiesfreak1854 (R-MI)/Senator ElectionsGuy (R-WI) - 284 EVs
Senator Snowstalker (D-PA)/Governor Adam C. FitzGerald (D-OH) - 254 EVs
Dixie ultimately costs the Democrats in the race the election. Despite unpopularity of the War in Vietnam and an outgoing incumbent Democratic President, Snowstalker and A. FitzGerald become doves on foreign policy promising a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam and remain competitive up north while holding a number of southern states. However, still angry over the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the deep south turns against the social Democrats and turn to the more socially conservative Republican Governor of Michigan, Oldiesfreak.
SKIP
But come on, it was obvious from the start of the FDR Presidency that the Democratic Party would one day no longer appeal to deep southerners. Those were not only Barry Goldwater Repub. states, but also Wallace states and there's no question they would go for you two. Not only because you and ElectionsGuy are much more hawkish than me or Snowstalker is or the bout with civil rights at the time, but in all honestly do you really think that Dixie would vote for a Democratic establishment, economically and socially liberal gay northern guy and pretty much a socialist from Pennsylvania? They would rather want me dead at that time than they would their President. Let's be serious here....
First, George Wallace was a Democrat. I think it's more likely he would run against both of us as an Independent (like he did IRL.) Second, the notion that someone as strongly pro-civil rights as me would win in the Deep South in 1968 is comical. Maybe in the Outer South, which was already oving toward the GOP before the civil rights movement, but not there. Economic issues, anti-communism, and in-migration had much more to do with the shift than race.
