History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2162 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1976
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The idea
In nineteen seventy-six the Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated Ford with fifty percent of the popular vote to forty-eight, and two hundred ninety-seven electoral votes to two hundred forty.
In practice
Carter carrying every southern state except Virginia and Oklahoma.
Where people slip
The Yawp describes Carter as a nuclear physicist and peanut farmer, one of a younger, racially liberal generation of New South Democrats.
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