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2016 Postmortem

a kennedy

(29,646 posts) Wed Nov 5, 2014, 11:39 AM Nov 2014

This is interesting.....Texas was not always red.

?w=1024 Yikes, sorry this is such a huge picture.

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This is interesting.....Texas was not always red. (Original Post) a kennedy Nov 2014 OP

You are familiar with the "Southern Strategy," I suppose? malthaussen Nov 2014 #1

Yes, but I guess I didn't see it in this perspective..... a kennedy Nov 2014 #2

A century ago, Oklahoma was a bastion of socialism. KamaAina Nov 2014 #3

All about religion marlakay Nov 2014 #4

malthaussen

(17,186 posts)

1. You are familiar with the "Southern Strategy," I suppose?

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2014, 11:59 AM

Nov 2014

The biggest change in the US political landscape since the 1968 elections has been the flip of the states of the Confederacy to the GOP, after a century of being overwhelmingly Democratic.

-- Mal