All Along The Watchtower
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« on: July 04, 2014, 03:08:40 PM » |
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In addition to what others have said, northern Oklahoma (especially near the Panhandle) is more ancestrally Republican (and a lot less Southern) than the rest of the state, and when combined with the votes of (white) conservatives from the growing OKC and Tulsa metros in 1976...well, Ford's victory is fairly easy to explain.
Note that Carter still won many of the more Southern/Dixiecratic counties of southeast OK in 1980 while losing the rest of the state.
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