re: #427 BongCrodny

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.

The trend here is each was before the Southern strategy. The GOP started doing better in the South the minute Nixon and his guys decided to do the Southern strategy. Goldwater in ‘64 played a role too.