[iowamark]

"In 1968," Rauch writes, "George C. Wallace, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, led a nationwide populist rebellion among conservatives. Though his American Independent Party presidential campaign drew votes from both mainstream parties, it mainly devastated the Democrats, who never recovered among conservative whites or in the South.

Nonsense. Jimmy Carter won the entire south, except Virginia, in 1976. George Wallace was never a conservative. He was a big spending statist.

[sportutegrl]

It’s not just Wallace that was a Democrat. So were the people that voted for him. Consider that in 1968, there were three candidates: Nixon, R; Humphries, D, and Wallace, I. In a three way race, the winner is the one who doesn’t have his vote split by the independent. Nixon, the Republican won because Wallace split the Democratic vote.

[Beagle8U]

Wallace won the Demonrat POTUS primary in MI.

[Beagle8U]

“Nonsense. Jimmy Carter won the entire south, except Virginia, in 1976.”

If you do a search you will find that Carter also had dealing with the Klan.