06-21-2012, 02:44 PM
(06-21-2012, 02:07 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I think the other difference is that the Democrats and Republican parties have shifted vastly from what they were during the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon time period. After the 1968 Democratic convention, the party made significant changes to the way in which party delegates are allocated to states which significantly changed the center of power to the national party. This has heavily impacted their choice of a presidential nominee starting with Carter, and it also caused many southern Democrats to switch sides altering the Republican Party composition and direction.
I'm pretty sure this is a story about civil rights. At least, Lyndon Johnson and George Wallace seemed to think so.
-Jester