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mianfei
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« on: October 02, 2019, 06:26:47 AM »
« edited: October 02, 2019, 06:35:22 AM by mianfei »

What I had in mind with the OP is that Nixon did better with working class, rural, and evangelical voters in 1972 than he did in 1960 and 1968 or any other Republican did in 1932-1996. Also, Nixon won West Virginia, one of three times WV voted Republican in 1932-1996.
It is true that 1972 was the only occasion between 1940 and 1996 that West Virginia voted more Republican than the nation, but even so it is not implausible that McGovern actually did better than Hilary Clinton amongst the lowest-income whites, even if he certainly did much worse amongst the wealthiest voters, where Hilary matched Trump even amongst whites.

I read about a week ago that Hilary Clinton won only a third of the poorest white voters nationwide, and given that McGovern won 31 percent of the white vote and carried certain poor white rural counties where Hilary could not get a quarter of the vote, it’s not impossible McGovern did better than 31 percent amongst these lowest-income whites, many of whom have supported his anti-war stance even if they did not like his other policies.
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