10-13-2020, 12:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-13-2020, 11:31 PM by Eric the Green.)
Well, you certainly have posted this comparison enough that, if Classic doesn't "get this one" he never will 
You mean that Indiana and Nebraska CD2 voted for Obama in 2008, not 2012.
Even though the Republicans have been the party of money and bosses since 1896, and the Democrats the party of the people since then, with Eisenhower pretty much keeping the Democratic New Deal going, in the 1960s the race issue forced a gigantic geographical shift. Other social/cultural issues and peace and ecology issues continued to drive this change. From Massachusetts Senator John F Kennedy onward, the northeast quickly became more and more Democratic, and much of the Midwest and West followed suit in the late 1980s and 1990s. In the sixties the solid south shifted from Democratic to Republican in scarcely a decade, and stayed there most of the time from then on, except that the Democrats nominated southern governors for president in 1976-80 and 1992-96, and that way kept some southern states Democratic (especially in 1976). But even though VP Al Gore was once a senator from TN, by 2000 the shift had become complete, and the red/states blue/states division we see today solidified.
You mean that Indiana and Nebraska CD2 voted for Obama in 2008, not 2012.
Even though the Republicans have been the party of money and bosses since 1896, and the Democrats the party of the people since then, with Eisenhower pretty much keeping the Democratic New Deal going, in the 1960s the race issue forced a gigantic geographical shift. Other social/cultural issues and peace and ecology issues continued to drive this change. From Massachusetts Senator John F Kennedy onward, the northeast quickly became more and more Democratic, and much of the Midwest and West followed suit in the late 1980s and 1990s. In the sixties the solid south shifted from Democratic to Republican in scarcely a decade, and stayed there most of the time from then on, except that the Democrats nominated southern governors for president in 1976-80 and 1992-96, and that way kept some southern states Democratic (especially in 1976). But even though VP Al Gore was once a senator from TN, by 2000 the shift had become complete, and the red/states blue/states division we see today solidified.