Nym90
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« on: May 10, 2012, 04:32:47 PM » |
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Johnson was almost certainly a factor; home state pride and all that.
Wallace drew 19 percent of the vote, and unlike in much of the rest of the country, he probably drew disproportionately from Nixon in the South.
Texas was in general a D-leaning state at the time (1972 was the first time since Reconstruction that it was more R than the national average), so it shouldn't be a surprise that it would vote for a Democratic candidate who lost narrowly nationally.
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