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@CastletonSnobFrom the last thread lol
So the northeast is blue because it has more Dems than Republicans?
Interesting... I wonder if there have been any studies on this
The short version is that after the Civil War, there were only 2 types of Democrats: 1) Former Southern confederates and 2) a coalition of 1st-2nd gen European immigrants (Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc) in the North East. Republicans were mostly Mid Westerners and non-immigrants in the North East. The stigma of the Civil War lasted a very long time, to the point when it was taken for granted that no Southern Democrat could ever win a National Election, so only North East candidates would make it to the presidential election. This was the status quo until Nixon enacted the Southern strategy and changed trajectories for both parties.