Well, yes, that 'one election' was also when the Goldwater campaign tried to woo the white South. It was your insinuation that somehow the 'Southern strategy' was about wooing Southerners in the urban and suburban areas, but I just showed you that those areas were voting Republican before the 'Southern strategy' took place.
FWIW, here is the guy the Nixon administration recruited to run for Governor in 1970.
1) I find it incredibly disturbing that you actually seem to WANT this to be the case.
2) Southern Whites swung heavily back toward Wallace (despite what he ran as, he was a Democrat who was more fiscally liberal and liberal on Vietnam than his two opponents) and heavily toward Carter in 1976 and even stayed somewhat loyal in 1980 (especially the rural ones, looking at county maps; Reagan's strength was in the suburbs). Did they vote GOP in 1972 and 1984 heavily? Yeah, but who didn't? Every other region supported the Republicans, too. Clinton pealed quite a few back in '92 and '96. The first election that could be objectively seen as a permanent Southern realignment toward the GOP is 2000. And that's a long time after the CRA, VRA or Southern Strategy. I don't care what Goldwater did, there was a reason he got absolutely demolished and a lot of Republicans refused to campaign for him (not sure what he expected when he opposed civil rights legislation that 80%+ of his party supported); but Nixon said repeatedly in his memoirs that he knew he could never reach the Wallace voter due to his civil rights views.
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