Democrats. Explain Jimmy Carters support in the South. You are afraid to answer that.
The South is a culture. Carter is part of it and speaks the language. Voting for a "favorite son" is common. That's why his home state of Georgia voted for him in 1980 when the rest of the South went with Reagan.
. Carter lost the South in 1980 because he proved himself incompetent and the only way to remove hi was voting republican.
Then what's all this bullshit about "explain Jimmy Carter's support in the South"?
Having it both ways: Priceless.
It's not having it both ways. Libs claim the South turned republican because of the civil rights vote. They went for Carter, a Democrat plantation owner, in 1976, so that blows your claim. As for the 1980 election, Carter proved to be incompetent and lost the south to Reagan.
Of course it is. First you're whining "explain Carter's support in the South" and in the next breath explaining why he didn't have any.
Duh?
The South DID turn Republican. Check a frickin' map. Even in the early daze of that sea change, it took a Southerner to buck the trend, and he still couldn't keep it up for two elections. 1980 was Reagan, who openly appealed to that constituency, literally kicking off his campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi talking "states rights", which was already a code word for racism.