Talk:U.S. "Party-switch" myth

• the Ozark Mountain region of Arkansas, during the Democrat "Solid South" days, have voted reliably Republican

Since the end of Reconstruction in 1974 and 1967, Arkansas had no Republican governors; in the 53 years since 1967, Republicans have only occupied the governorship for 17 years. Infact, since the founding of the GOP, Republicans have only occupied the governors office in Arkansas for 21 out of 152 years.

This section obviously needs work. RobS^{De Plorabus Unum} 21:28, 10 April 2020 (EDT)

Definitely need a James Eastland article; a Stennis, Ervin and even Talmadge article would help, too. RobS^{De Plorabus Unum} 10:57, 11 April 2020 (EDT)

A mention on The End of Southern Exceptionalism

I think it would be a very good idea to mention in the page the book The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South. Unfortunately, I haven't got an opportunity to read the book yet, so if anyone else is interested in this, I would really appreciate it. --Liberaltears^{Just say no to quid pro joe! | Free Roger Stone!} 13:19, 7 June 2020 (EDT)

Party platforms

I'll probably add in a lot more information regarding the party platforms some time; I read most of them a while back, and some of the trends I noticed certainly were interesting... —LT^{May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!} Wednesday, 21:07, 29 December 2020 (EST)

I can do cleaner maps if you like

The 1968 Presidential election map appears to be based on a scan from a magazine at the time. The results are undisputed (unlike this current election), and easily accessible. I could whip up a new, cleaner map in a higher resolution myself using the now-standard colors of red for Republican, blue for Democrat and white for other for 1968, or of any other map for that matter. If you'd rather have an actual scan of the results of the time to preserve that slice of history, that's okay too. --LawfulLibertarian (talk) 20:37, 1 January 2021 (EST)

Sounds like a good idea! If you make a nice-looking map of the election yourself and want it uploaded to use here, you can email me here, and I can upload it and credit you. —LT^{May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!} Saturday, 21:59, 1 January 2021 (EST)

Just a thought, but "red for republicans" is a liberal media thing. I've been of the opinion that Conservapedia could differentiate itself better from Wikipedia by standardizing on the colors from the 1980 and 1984 elections. And since you are doing maps already, you might find it an easy place to begin by using Wikipedia's empty maps.[1] They're all open source so there's no danger, and why reinvent wheels? Just thinking out loud and thank you for offering. Progressingamerica (talk) 23:00, 1 January 2021 (EST)

I've decided to go for the primary colors (red for Republican, blue for Democrat and green for Independent) both for ease of editing and convenience to newcomers. As to my progress so far, I've used a higher-res map than Wikipedia offers. I'll add text once I have time and work around the annoying tendency of GIMP to automatically separate text into layers. Is this all right so far? I certainly welcome feedback. i.imgur.com/DiK26OL.jpg

Edit: the gradient represents the faithless elector from North Carolina. LawfulLibertarian (talk) 00:15, 4 January 2021 (EST)

Looks awesome so far! —LT^{May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!} Monday, 08:23, 4 January 2021 (EST)

Thanks! It took me a hot minute to get it done, but here it is. I intentionally left a space blank for the charts/statistics on the EC/popular vote since I didn't really know how to present that best. So this is basically a rough final copy. https://i.imgur.com/tRpBKIw.png LawfulLibertarian (talk) 22:41, June 21, 2022 (EDT)

Portal

This being a portal page, I linked to it from another portal page, Democratic party here. [2] Hopefully this will help generate more traffic. You should consider also using Racism and the Democratic Party and History of Democrat racism as a way to generate more internal links and traffic. RobS^{Free Kyle!} 15:18, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

A lot of cut n pastes from here and your bio entries would fit nicely in History of Democrat racism. RobS^{Free Kyle!} 15:22, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

Oh, and you should do reverse links between those two pages to here, as well. RobS^{Free Kyle!} 15:22, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

Hmm, good idea. —LT^{May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!} Wednesday, 16:26, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

Note

Finding the overall political leaning for some of the Southern Democrat U.S. representatives who were around during the 60s era can be tricky; while larger amounts of info can be gathered for the senators, there's less info regarding less-well known members of the House, so another way to examine their viewpoints would be to look at a number of roll call votes on things like Great Society programs. Is anyone else able to pull up some good GovTrack sources for them? —LT^{May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!} Wednesday, 16:35, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

There are Congressional bio pages, but those generally are fluff pieces. Alternatively, you can go to Wikipedia, find who ran against them in their toughest elections, Google them and see what their opponents said about them. RobS^{Free Kyle!} 16:39, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

The real problems begin when a guy runs unopposed for 20 years, etc. There you have to find local newspaper critic who didn't go along with the mob. RobS^{Free Kyle!} 16:44, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

Some specific details related to all that may be harder to find, though they certainly sound like something I should do some more extensive research into... —LT^{May D.C., his mother, and I.S. be all well!} Wednesday, 16:47, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

Give me a guy's name you are having trouble finding information on, and let's see how long it take for me to dig up dirt. RobS^{Free Kyle!} 16:52, 28 April 2021 (EDT)

Don't be afraid to use NAACP or ACLU criticism of these guys from the 1960s or before, if you can't find what opponents or reporters say. RobS^{Free Kyle!} 16:55, 28 April 2021 (EDT)