pattern of voting for the most staunch conservative, or protector of Southern whites views. In the 1968 election Southern whites in the Deep South voted for George C. Wallace, while the rest of the South split on Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. In the Election of 1972 This trend seemed to continue, in that Nixon was the more conservative of the two Presidential Nominees and thus he carried the South. In the 1976 Election it seems that even the Southern whites were shaken by the Watergate Scandal in that it voted for a Democrat, Jimmy Carter. Carter was not a conservative, but was from the South, and pulled both the conservative Southern white as well as the Southern black votes. In 1980 it seems that the Southern whites once again decided on a conservative candidate when Ronald Reagan garnered all of the south except for Georgia. In the 1984 election Ronald Reagan took 49 of the states and all of the South. This had a good deal to do with Reagans belief in the moral and religious right as well as his get tough policies with the Russians. In the 1988 election, the staunch conservative George Bush once again held the South solid in its vote for a conservative president. He carried on many of Reagans ideas about the moral majority, and had conservative views. In the 1992 Election the South split as a majority of the south voted for the conservative Bush, but several border and deep south states voted for Clinton (http://www.worldmedia.fr/USelections/electionva/history/index.html). In 1992 it seemed that Clinton was able to pull around 34% of the Southern white vote (survey N.Y. Times) In the 1996 election the South was once again split, While a majority of the Southern states did go to Bob Dole, while several of the same states that supported Clinton before supported him once again. (Wattenburg p.147) The times that a non conservative presidential nominee has won a sizeable amount of the southern support seems to have been when a large majorit...
