Besides the obvious, Minnesota (always voting blue no matter who) and Georgia (being Carter's home state), whats the deal with Rhode Island and West Virginia in the 1980 presidential election?
>>18346418>Minnesota (always voting blue no matter who)Minnesota voted for Nixon. It only went Dem in '80 and '84 because it's Mondale's home state. GW Bush and Trump also came very close to winning it, multiple times each.
The other states seem obvious but West Virginia is odd. I’ll say it’s the last dying embers of old time union miners and a local Democratic machine. This was a transition era where more of the south was voting Republican in presidential elections but still electing conservative Democrats to Congress and local offices. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to carry many southern states before the map of Dixie went red.
>>18346616West Virginia was not part of the Solid South, it voted Republican plenty of times before the New Deal which is what really turned them into a lean-Democratic state. In 2000 the topic of the environment and hostility towards dirty industry increased in prominence especially in Democrat discourse, which had a profound impact on West Virginia politics due to their reliance on coal.
Reagan sol d out California and made it blueI'll never forgive him for being part of the ruin of this state
>>18347159As recently as 2015 Jeb Bush said illegals pouring in was an "act of love". It took Trump to dismantle the uniparty support of illegals.
>>18347159neoliberals do that
