How did Dukakis do fairly well in Louisiana but very badly in New Hampshire? (user search)
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« on: April 21, 2018, 11:18:29 AM »

Would it be logical to assume the more rural a Southern state was circa '88, the better Dukakis did in it?

I think so, yes.  Dukakis was the last Dem nominee for whom rural support was > suburban support in most of the country.  Clinton 1992 continued this in much of the South, but not elsewhere.
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