[E. Pluribus Unum]

...Republicans mostly called the tune in his native South, supported by white voters who were uncomfortable with the Democrats’ embrace of racial inclusion...

Never mind that Democrats were the party of slavery, the Confederacy, segregation, Trail of Tears, Jim Crow, the KKK and lynch mobs.

[bankwalker]

They lost the south in the 1994 midterms.

[EvilCapitalist]

Jimmy Carter was descended from Robert “King” Carter, one of the largest slave owners in Virginia. He’d never get elected by today’s woke electorate with that little tid-bit of info about his family out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHYpt0wNq0U

[pepsi_junkie]

… at what had been a solidly Democratic South since the end of Reconstruction.

They spelled “since as far back as before the republicans freed all their slaves” wrong.

[Az Joe]

Carter code word racism 1976

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/4/15/on-purity-pbtbhe-1968-presidential-campaign/

The starkest example of Carter’s use of code-word racism in his search for votes came two weeks ago in South Bend, Indiana. Carter said the federal government should not attempt to break down the “ethnic purity” of white neighborhoods by assisting blacks or other minorities to move to such neighborhoods. He spoke of “alien groups,” meaning blacks, and with less subtlety, in a newspaper interview a few days before the South Bend speech, referred directly to “black intrusion.”

But while these remarks may be the most obvious indication of a racist current in the Carter campaign, this current has in fact been consistently present. Indeed as Senator Hubert Humphrey has said, heavily anti-Washington and anti-urban rhetoric is nothing more than the newest form of disguised racism. And although Humphrey, in nothing this phenomenon, did not point specifically to any candidate, it is Carter who has decried federal aid to the cities, Carter who has spoken of the “burden” of welfare, and Carter who has posed himself as the anti-Washington force.

But it is Carter who has carefully but deliberately injected the race issue into the current campaign, and it would be wrong to fail to distinguish between him and the other candidates on this question.

The Carter campaign is then a dangerous campaign. Carter should be defeated in Pennsylvania, and those who have supported him but would still wish to view themselves as within the American liberal tradition, should repudiate that support.

[Gen.Blather]

The best thing about Democrats is, the more people see and hear them, the less they are liked. The longer Biden remained in his basement during his first run for office, the higher his ratings got. Once in office, Democrats set the stage for any vibrant Republican to take their place. Of course, Republicans regularly ran animated corpses like Bob Dole. My father had been a lifelong Democrat. He said of Carter, I didn’t leave the party. The party left me. (Of course, he’s voted the full Democratic ticket since he died.)

[plain talk]

FWIW there was a rise in southern rock music in the mid 1970s, e.g. Allman Bros, Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels, etc.

Some young Southerners voted for Carter rather than Ford just because of the Southern pride connection. Carter was a “nuc’lear” engineer and had a great smile too! Ford wasn’t much to get excited about back then. :-)

[Bonemaker]

Here some democrat tool goes again, making it all about race.

[Celtic Conservative]

This guy is 180° out. The south became MORE republican because it became LESS racist.

CF

[Luigi Vasellini]

Enjoyed the reminder of the dems racist past

[StAnDeliver]

"Indeed, after Mr. Carter’s ascension to the White House, the states of the old Confederacy would go on to become, with a few exceptions, a crucial base of support for Republican presidential candidates. Much of that support came from Mr. Carter’s fellow Southern evangelicals, who turned sharply away from him and the Democrats during his presidential term. They became one of the most loyal Republican voting blocs and remain so to this day."

And those evangelicals found out the hard way that Carter could camo everything but his bred-to-the-bone anti-semitism, his fascinating bitter hatred for Israel; and that the Camp David Accords accomplished nothing but getting Sadat killed by his own slime.

[jerod]

Jimmy lost the ‘south’???

Actually... Jimmah won Georgia (his own state), and he also won Minnesota, West Virginia, Maryland and Rhode Island... But he lost every other state in the Union... Including California and New York... So was Jimmy Carter a disaster for the Democrat party? The answer to that is ‘yes’.

Was Biden a disaster for the Democrat party... That answer to that is also ‘yes’.

[ifinnegan]

Carter won the South in 76.

Swept it clean save Virginia.

[Savage Beast]

Maybe the Southerners recognized him for what he was.

[HIDEK6]

For entertainment purposes only.

[ReformedBeckite]

And in the 1984 election, the Democrats didn’t even try to win, they ended up with Mondale who only won one state, Minnesota of which he was something like Governor, not sure about that, anyway he barely won that state. You might call that a turning point of some sort.

[PAR35]

Never mind that Democrats were the party of slavery, the Confederacy, segregation, Trail of Tears, Jim Crow, the KKK and lynch mobs.

So you can't think of anything negative to say about the democrats?

[Ge0ffrey]

The same tired old Republicans-are-racists meme. Whereas Democrats run the inner city plantations, and wealthy Democrats love that cheap, brown-skinned illegal labor.

[chief lee runamok]

jimmy hanging out with maduro and chavez.

jimmy was a fond admirer of dictators.