Straight-ticket R for the most part. The Reagan Democrats weren't the people that the media refers to as Reagan Democrats. They were in fact mostly Dixiecrats who voted for Reagan, but continued to register as Democrats and vote for Dixiecrats at the local level into the 90s and 2000s.
Hasn't this forum pointed out several times that the "real" Reagan Democrats were White ethnic workers in the North? I mean Reagan BARELY won the South in 1980, and looking at the county results, his strength came overwhelmingly from the emerging GOP suburbs and urban areas. Carter won the rural South.
Yes, he crushed Mondale in the South in '84, but he crushed him everywhere else that year, too...
This. Most of the voters that the media refers to as "Reagan Democrats" never actually voted for Reagan and only started voting Republican in 2000 at the earliest.
