In the South, Suburban Whites flipped to voting Republican long before rural whites did. Look at the 1980 County Map for one example, and you'll see that there were still plenty of rural white counties voting Democratic.
Looking at county maps, I notice quite a few largely white Baptist and Methodist Southern counties still voted Democratic in the 1980s and 1990s. I'm guessing their must have been a big class divide among evangelical voters during that time, and possibly still exists too a smaller extent. Would anybody know?
Single women are considerably more Democratic across the board, even among whites in the South.
