1976 Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten
Von Horse_snot_radish
1976 Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten
Von Horse_snot_radish
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Gerald Ford is my favorite Republican president since Lincoln.
The past is a foreign country.
In a book by John Coleman, a former British MI6 agent who had moved to the US and became an American citizen, he tells of how another MI6 agent told him in 1974: You’re next President will be a peanut farmer from Georgia.
Apparently the global powers that be decided that folksy Southern Socialists ( Carter then Clinton) would make the perfect balance of power to Establishment Republicans ( Ford, Bush).
They use both to achieve their goals .
Imagine Massachusetts voting the same as Alabama. What a different world we live in now.
I wonder what hypothetical match-up would be mostly likely to recreate this in 2028
Blue Texas is crazy
This would be called a „landslide victory“ by the terms of the current administration.
Looks impossible now to expect California to turn Red and Texas blue.
Blue West Virginia and Red Virginia is so oddly satisfying.
Carter remains the last Democrat to win Texas, Mississippi, Alabama or South Carolina.
The last gasp of the New Deal coalition
That map is basically unrelatable these days
One day when a really big fucking pendulum swings, it’ll look like this or close to this again. The present rarely stays so and history often rhymes.
has the ideology of the two parties switched during these years or people’s mind changed?
any background info on the switch?
Blue Texas and a red California, that’s mental.
Of course, the South always votes solid Dem. But California is almost always blood red, along with the rest of the west coast.
That’s just how American politics works.
The worst president was Biden the second worst is Carter.
A time when issues were valued more than tribalism.
I remember singing „Ford, Ford, he’s our man, Carter belongs in a garbage can“ on election night. I was 5.
4 years before Regan makes this more crazy
Seeing Red California and Blue Texas on the same map is cursed
This feels like an episode of Sliders
Why did it switch so aggressively in the next years? Like, why people in the South started voting for the Republicans and vice-versa?
When California was Republican and Texas was Democratic
Watergate and Vietnam had a lot to do with it, but Carter was a great president.
The Nixon/Goldwater southern strategy failed. Southern democrats still voted for southern democrats.
Maine, Virginia, Indiana, and Michigan all voting for the losing candidate is wild.
Back when the south was still mostly democratic simply due to tradition, not by their stance on the issues. Well, also because Carter was a southerner.
Not a democrat, but at this point I’d vote for Jimmy Carter
Carter was a particularly weak candidate who nearly bungled a slam-dunk election