I've always been mystified as to why the big lib media would think down-to-earth, socially conservative , patriotic Southerners would vote for a candidate like McGovern who wanted to change the country into the antithesis of everything they stood for.
Did they really believe Southerners (or conservative voters everywhere) were going to vote for a leftist agenda? That so-called evil "southern strategy" was just liberal furor at their favortite leftist pol McGovern not getting elected.
Do a write-in and be done with it.