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Advocates say it would clear up ambiguity in the constitution, but critics — and even a group pushing for the change — see it as a way to drive conservatives to the polls.
The Ronald Reagan 1980 presidential campaign saw breaking president Jimmy Carter's hold on southern states as critical to winning that year's presidential election. [1] [2] Lanny Griffith, then-Mississippi state Republican director, explained: It was not a mistake that Reagan went to the Neshoba County Fair, rather than Jackson. This was sort ...
Especially in the 1960s, the national Democratic Party's support of the Civil Rights Movement, capped by President Lyndon Johnson's support for the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, led to white southerners turning away from the Democratic Party. The Republican Party made gains in the South by way of its "Southern strategy."
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.
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In 1956, Eisenhower received 48.9% of the Southern vote, becoming only the second Republican in history (after Ulysses S. Grant) to get a plurality of Southern votes. [62] The 1956 election was the first time since 1872 that the Democratic presidential nominee failed to win a majority of the south's electoral votes. [63]
Goldberg also advised anxious Americans to "get some papers" to ease election woes.