Arbitrage1980
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« on: June 03, 2018, 02:24:21 PM » |
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Carter was despised by the Congressional Democrats because he was too moderate, hence why Ted Kennedy opposed him in the 1980 Democratic primary. He most likely would have lost if not for the Iranian hostage crisis.
More importantly, the liberal story about the "Southern Strategy" is deeply flawed. In their narrative, the South switched en masse to the GOP once they opposed civil rights and became the de facto racist party. The data does not support this. The areas of the South in which the GOP first made headwinds were the affluent educated suburbs such as Dallas, Houston, Fairfax County, etc. The rural areas did not become solid GOP until the post-Reagan era, especially after the 1994 Gingrich revolution. The re-alignment took several decades.
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