Was the 2000 election the realignment that created the current map we have now?

[Make My Bank Account Great Again]

...or was it another election?

The 2000-2016 trend map looks eerily similar to the 2012-2016 map so there wasn't any political realignment this time around.

[mencken]

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I would say the current alignment has been around for a while (excepting West Virginia, and now Iowa and Ohio)

[The_Doctor]

I think it was a confirming election of the Reagan era. W. was the heir to Reagan just as JFK was the heir to FDR and William McKinley was Lincoln's ideological heir. The service economy needed a service economy President ... and thus, W 43.

The 2000 election also cemented the Party's Southern roots and re-centered it officially as the Party of Reagan (the West & South) while the North and Pacific Coast peeled off. Similar things kind of happened in 1896 and 1960. 

[RINO Tom]

Single elections have never caused a total realignment of a map.

[NeverAgain]

Single elections have never caused a total realignment of a map.

This.

It wasn't the cause, but it was the start of the next 5 (or more) elections. States like VA, NC, CO, etc. have been grafted in to the mold, but all in all this swing state map has stayed basically the same for 2000 to 2016. I would say it will stay the same until at least 2024.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Single elections have never caused a total realignment of a map.

Um 1932

[RINO Tom]

Single elections have never caused a total realignment of a map.

Um 1932

What about it?  Al Smith made significant inroads to Northern industrial areas that had long been Republican, and - even with vote splitting - Woodrow Wilson arguably laid the foundation for that trend.

But, with Computer89, all statements about politics have to fit nicely into a paragraph of a text book.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Single elections have never caused a total realignment of a map.

Um 1932

What about it?  Al Smith made significant inroads to Northern industrial areas that had long been Republican, and - even with vote splitting - Woodrow Wilson arguably laid the foundation for that trend.

But, with Computer89, all statements about politics have to fit nicely into a paragraph of a text book.

My  PS class in college said that 1932 election was one of the few elections where everything realigned in one election

[RINO Tom]

Single elections have never caused a total realignment of a map.

Um 1932

What about it?  Al Smith made significant inroads to Northern industrial areas that had long been Republican, and - even with vote splitting - Woodrow Wilson arguably laid the foundation for that trend.

But, with Computer89, all statements about politics have to fit nicely into a paragraph of a text book.

My  PS class in college said that 1932 election was one of the few elections where everything realigned in one election

What if there are other professors or textbook writers around the world who might disagree?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

No, 1992 was.  2000 was only a regional realignment of Appalachia to the GOP.

[Lechasseur]

No, 1992 was.  2000 was only a regional realignment of Appalachia to the GOP.

Basically this (Appalachia+Arkansas+Louisiana+Missouri)

[dw93]

2000 and 2004 were the end result of a realignment that has roots going back to 1964.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Single elections have never caused a total realignment of a map.

Um 1932

What about it?  Al Smith made significant inroads to Northern industrial areas that had long been Republican, and - even with vote splitting - Woodrow Wilson arguably laid the foundation for that trend.

But, with Computer89, all statements about politics have to fit nicely into a paragraph of a text book.

My  PS class in college said that 1932 election was one of the few elections where everything realigned in one election

Well he was wrong.

[Dr. MB]

The whole period from the mid 60s to the early 2000s was a realignment. It didn't happen overnight. 2000 was the completion (at least presidentially, it was different at the local levels still for another decade or so).