To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (164219 ) 7/25/2001 12:43:33 AM From: CYBERKEN Read Replies (1) | Respond to Perhaps one of the more telling parallels of the trend is one that appeared in the carnage of the Goldwater defeat in 1964. The Deep South, like Hispanics today, voted religiously Democrat for most of a century. Adlai Stevenson had found his strongest support there, despite being the most liberal of the two candidates, in 1952 and 1956. In the Goldwater debacle, millions of Deep South voters went against their traditional party for the first time in their lives. Over the ensuing decade, the Republicans spent and worked harder in the South than anywhere, and built not only the base that elected Reagan in 1980, but the core of what Kevin Phillips called "The Emerging Republican Majority".
