

The bigger deal was that, for the elections from Nixon’s second term to Reagan’s second term, there wasn’t a major Democratic base in a state which varied differently from the nation. Bill Clinton had a near equivalent percentage of the vote in 1996 yet lost 19 states.







There was a major collapse of the Democratic Party in 1968 which never really recovered until Obama: Carter got elected because of Watergate, Bill Clinton got elected because of Perot.
And bad as it looks in retrospect, Nixon and Reagan were very popular presidents at the time.