Earliest Signs of Red-State Blue-State Divide

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Absurd and (especially as far as '68 goes; the idea that all Wallace's voters would have gone for Nixon over Humphrey is absurd) hackish. This is a typical example of the tendency of people to look for evidence to back up an already reached conclusion rather than to look at evidence in order to come to a conclusion.

Oh as for California, this is the '68 map:

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If anyone actually needs any proof that "South Park Conservative" is but a hack, this is the result that'd you'd actually get if you add all of Wallace's voters to Nixon:



Oh and here's a map of HHH's vote:



He took 43% nationally (for those interested, in much (but not all) of the U.S, there's a correlation (not perfect o/c) between union strength and HHH's map).