First "real" Republican/Democrat presidents

[Gustaf]

For Republicans I guess Reagan, possibly Nixon. For Democrats I'd say FDR, maybe even Wilson but that'd be a stretch. I would say that the modern parties were decided when the Republican convention of 1912 chose Taft over Roosvelt, thus eventually wiping out the Progressive brand of Republicans. With FDR and his reforms the Democrats as the left and Republicans as the right, on economy, had been established. The next change comes with the realignment of the South. The rest is more extrapolating than anything else.

[Gustaf]

On these maps, all states have been shifted to correspond to a national PV-tie. So blue states were more Republican than the national average and vice versa. I count the Southern 3rd parties as Republican, as they were gonna become that eventually. For 1968 I gave almost all of Wallace's votes to Nixon but let the states were Humphrey was close to 50% remain in his column.

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