re: #420 sattv4u2

Those two elections had more to do with Ikes popularity (the 52 one, a hero of WW2,, the 56 one, 4 years of relative quiet and prosperity as well as the Dems recycling Stevenson/ Kefuafer) than anything substantially political

Ike lost the south both times because he wanted segregation and most southern dems (hello, Al Gore Sr.) were against it

I’ll certainly concede that Ike was a phenomenon, but even in the bookend elections of 1948 and 1960, Truman and Kennedy each won a significant chunk of the south.