How did people who disapprove of Lincoln vote?

[Rockefeller GOP]

I doubt this "group" voted for Reagan over Carter, look at the county results for 1980.  Reagan barely won the Southern states that he did win, and his strength came from the more populous counties.  Carter won all the rural, Dixiecrat counties.

[Rockefeller GOP]

I doubt this "group" voted for Reagan over Carter, look at the county results for 1980.  Reagan barely won the Southern states that he did win, and his strength came from the more populous counties.  Carter won all the rural, Dixiecrat counties.

Blacks.

He lost several rural counties which had to be mainly White...

[Rockefeller GOP]

I doubt this "group" voted for Reagan over Carter, look at the county results for 1980.  Reagan barely won the Southern states that he did win, and his strength came from the more populous counties.  Carter won all the rural, Dixiecrat counties.

Blacks.

He lost several rural counties which had to be mainly White...

White : Reagan 50, Carter 45
Black: Carter 90, Reagan 10

would be enough to win any Southern county for the Democrats.

Also, Reagan won the White South 60-35.

Reagan won Lincoln haters.

All I said is that Carter won most of the rural voters while Reagan won the more suburban counties.  I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your classic Dixiecrat type Lincoln hater is more common in rural counties rather than booming suburbs that have larger populations of Northern transplants.  Considering Reagan only won White voters by 5, it would not be outrageous to claim that Carter might have won "Lincoln haters."

[Rockefeller GOP]

I imagine most of the people who disapprove of Lincoln are libertarians/paleoconservatives, and they'd be inclined to vote for Paul (in GOP primaries) or the Libertarian candidate (in the general).

I think that's more of the case outside of the South.  Southerners who disapprove of Lincoln tend to be fairly typical Republicans.

Which is a shame.  I'd gladly kick them to the curb.  I feel the same as Nixon felt about his (now infamous) "Southern Strategy": I'm fine with winning the NEW South (people with conservative values who feel at home in the GOP but don't carry the same racist or neo-Confederate views that their parents and grandparents might have), but there's no room in the Party of Lincoln for the type of voter who more or less amounts to a modern day Dixiecrat who's simply switched his or her party label.