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**reervieltnope** · 01-24-2006, 06:43 PM

Your insistance that "drugs' are somehow a problem that belongs to the coasts seems strange to me. Drug (and alcohol) problems are spread across the country and I can't see what they have to do with white southerners leaving the democratic party to vote republican.
Wallace ran on his own American Independant Party ticket in 68 and won Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia. In 72 he ran in the dem primary and won one northern state - michigan - and a handful of southern states. I believe he won every southern primary that he ran in before getting shot. Significantly, his absence in 72 changed the result from a hairsbreadth win for the republicans in 68 to one of the most lopsided victories ever in 72.

Can you not follow this? Drugs were a problem on the east and west coasts in the 60's which is what I had originally stated. No where did I say that that's the case today.
Unless you count Maryland as a southern state (which NO real southern does), then Wallace won two northern states in the 1972 primaries.
It was the 1964 Democratic primaries in Indiana, Wisconsin and Maryland when Wallace received around 1/3 of the votes.
BTW, southern presidential candidates have almost always done well in the South.

01-24-2006, 06:43 PM	#5
reervieltnope Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 555 Senior Member	Your insistance that "drugs' are somehow a problem that belongs to the coasts seems strange to me. Drug (and alcohol) problems are spread across the country and I can't see what they have to do with white southerners leaving the democratic party to vote republican. Wallace ran on his own American Independant Party ticket in 68 and won Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia. In 72 he ran in the dem primary and won one northern state - michigan - and a handful of southern states. I believe he won every southern primary that he ran in before getting shot. Significantly, his absence in 72 changed the result from a hairsbreadth win for the republicans in 68 to one of the most lopsided victories ever in 72. Can you not follow this? Drugs were a problem on the east and west coasts in the 60's which is what I had originally stated. No where did I say that that's the case today. Unless you count Maryland as a southern state (which NO real southern does), then Wallace won two northern states in the 1972 primaries. It was the 1964 Democratic primaries in Indiana, Wisconsin and Maryland when Wallace received around 1/3 of the votes. BTW, southern presidential candidates have almost always done well in the South.
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