Found 1988 Article about Dukakis Strategy

[Mr. Smith]

@Vega: And yet only in the 49 state landslides did Hawaii vote Republican,even re-electing Jimmy Carter in 1980....sorry but I'm not convinced.

But Kudos to Dukakis for developing a strategy for the Democrats to be able to do what Republicans were doing from 1876-1928 and winning pretty much the whole way through (cheating in 1876,1888 and the Wilson and Cleveland admins were the lone exceptions): Which is that of saying "Screw you Confederacy"

And hey it practically works,what with the dubious give over to Dubya in 2000, either way Al Gore lost the entire South despite being a Southern Democrat.  John Kerry, same thing...except he needed Ohio (he would've won with less than 20 then) and lost that one unambiguously.

Obama got re-elected on what appears to be some kind of flip of the 1976 map, namely losing every Carter state except Florida and winning the Ford state of Virginia.