Eisenhower was the first Republican to win states out of the former "solid south." Texas' Democrat party even endorsed him. So just as I said, Eisenhower marked the beginning of the south's split and transition to the GOP. Democrats pretty much swept the south in 1960
No they didn't. Kennedy won a majority, but lost several key southern states. That is hardly a "sweep" by any standard. Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky all went for Nixon while Mississippi and half of Alabama's electors went for Harry Byrd as a continuation of the dixiecrat vote. Texas also probably would have gone for Nixon except for the now-infamous voter fraud.
and 1964
No sweep there either. In fact the south provided the ONLY block of votes for Goldwater outside his home state of Arizona. In addition to that, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina were the ONLY states in the nation that voted Republican. The non-leftist regions of Florida (i.e. the area north of the infamous recount counties) also voted for Goldwater Not even the most conservative of your beloved plains states joined them. In fact you could say that every single one of the states that Goldwater won was a state or territory in the confederacy - the nation's conservative stronghold. EVERYWHERE else went with the leftist Johnson that year.
and 1976.
Funny how you left out 68 and 72!
It's more like 1980 before the south began trending Republican
No. 1980 generally marks the fulfillment of the south's transition to the GOP - as in giving a majority to the Republican and sustaining that trend in subsequent elections. decades after the Great Plains states.
Looks to me as if the great plains abandoned the GOP's most conservative candidate in the last half-century. Yet Dixie didn't. In fact he won every single county in Mississippi and Alabama - a complete sweep of both of those states. Not even his home state of Arizona did that. And for the record, want to know how many counties on the trashy side of the hudson voted for Goldwater? One. A rural county in New Hampshire. LBJ swept every other county in that entire 7 state region plus NJ and all but 3 counties in PA.
So welcome to the show, y'all. Better late than never.
Our arrival at the show has been continuously building since the 1950's. It has increased to unanimous attendence at the present. Meanwhile, yankeeland has been departing at similar rates over the same period and even the plains states, with their dozen electoral votes, have boycotted some performances entirely such as 1964. But not Dixie. We've had a presence at every one of them and as of today make up the largest segment of the audience. Forget that fact and the Republican Party will never win a national election again.
Your statement explains the New Red Historians' South-bashing. The South is eeeevil! Southern conservatives are Hitchcock caricatures in slouch hats with snaggly teeth, like the ethnic-caricature critter-man in Jeepers Creepers.