How did Ronald Reagan do well in the west compared to south in 1984?

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How did Ronald Reagan do well in the west compared to south in 1984?  Could another GOP presidential candidate do the same thing in future elections like 2020 or 2024?

Ronald Reagan highest % of voters:

Utah 74.50%
Idaho 72.36%
Nebraska 70.55%
Wyoming 70.51%
New Hampshire 68.66%
Oklahoma 68.61%
Alaska 66.65%
Arizona 66.42%
Kansas 66.25%
Nevada 65.85%

[Landslide Lyndon]

Reagan being a Westerner must have something to do with it.

[Hydera]

How did Ronald Reagan do well in the west compared to south in 1984?  Could another GOP presidential candidate do the same thing in future elections like 2020 or 2024?

Ronald Reagan highest % of voters:

Utah 74.50%
Idaho 72.36%
Nebraska 70.55%
Wyoming 70.51%
New Hampshire 68.66%
Oklahoma 68.61%
Alaska 66.65%
Arizona 66.42%
Kansas 66.25%
Nevada 65.85%

African americans are 90%+ Democrat so they obviously made Reagan's margins in the South lower even if he won those states.

[Mr. Smith]

Reagan being a Westerner must have something to do with it.

And yet Mondale literally did better than Carter in California....just sayin'.

[Zioneer]

The Sagebrush Rebellion helped a lot.

[Clark Kent]

Reagan being a Westerner must have something to do with it.

And yet Mondale literally did better than Carter in California....just sayin'.

The home state advantage typically wears off for reelection. Eisenhower did worse in Kansas in 1956 than in 1952 and Clinton did worse in Arkansas in 1996 than in 1992. FDR avoided this two out of his three reelections (New York swung Republican in 1940) as did Nixon and Bush Jr., but it happens. Obama also did worse in Illinois in 2012, but that was to be expected since he did worse than he did in 2008 overall.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Because the South wasn't a Republican stronghold in the 1980s in any way whatsoever.  Period.

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Things change. In 1976, the losing Republican won the bay area.

[Badger]

How did Ronald Reagan do well in the west compared to south in 1984?  Could another GOP presidential candidate do the same thing in future elections like 2020 or 2024?

Ronald Reagan highest % of voters:

Utah 74.50%
Idaho 72.36%
Nebraska 70.55%
Wyoming 70.51%
New Hampshire 68.66%
Oklahoma 68.61%
Alaska 66.65%
Arizona 66.42%
Kansas 66.25%
Nevada 65.85%

most of these states were among Obama's worst states as well, with the obvious exception s of NH and NV, only the latter being a western state (the answer being Latino registration).