Jimmy Carter carried the South in 1976.
Reagan swept the country.
Only with Bush the Elder in 1988 and 1992 do we start to see the modern electoral map, with the Pacific Northwest & Atlantic Northeast going Democrat while South, Midwest and West go mostly Republican.
In other words, the "big switch" wasn't a bunch of racists in the 60s but instead the middle class in the 80s.
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