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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

OK, Dave, recent history it is. However, your original reference was to "throughout history" which, you'd have to agree, is different from "recent history".

Also, I believe it was Lyndon Johnson and his slew of civil rights legislation that turned the south, not Carter. I believe, for example, that Nixon swept the south in '72, though because of Watergate and the fact that Carter was himself a southerner, he did win the south in '76.