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What if, instead of pandering to racist white Democrats in the South, Nixon decides to pursue a different Republican Majority (you can make your own, but mine is...) like Southern Blacks, Big Business, Northern Suburbs, and Northern Blacks. Even if the Sunbelt is the growing region, Nixon's coalition proves enough in 1968. Wallace gains several Southern States, Humphrey gains Ohio, and Illinois, but Nixon gains New York, Pennsylvania and Washington State:


Nixon: 285
Humphrey 162
Wallace: 91

So now what? Nixon still has a good majority, at least for Presidential Elections, and what becomes of our beloved Democrats?

Maybe The Democrats combine Economic Populism with the Religious Right to keep the South? Or do they cede the South to Third Party?
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