What in the Wide World of Sports is Dean talking about? In 1968 it was a 'Rat, GEORGE WALLACE, who divided the 'RAT party over race and took votes away from HHH. Wallace carried six southern states!! He was the last 3rd party candidate to carry a state in a Presidential Election.
Jesse Jackson ought to remember what was going on in the South in 1968. Wasn't he at the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Howard Dean is more confused than John Dean.
You're right. Dizzy Dean doesn't even realize that Wallace took the Deep South in 1968. Nixon won despite losing the Deep South. What a Dim bulb.
BTW, after his third party effort failed, Wallace returned to the Dim party, as most of the segregationist Dims stayed with the Democrats. The South came over to the Republicans after the Dims split over Vietnam, 1968-1972, and the McGovern wing grabbed control. The Dims will never admit they gave the South away because they turned their back on the conservative, pro-military, pro-defense, wing of their party.
A higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats. The claim the pubbies won over Southern voters after 1968 because of race is a blood libel.