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Originally Posted by Derwood
i'm not implying any racism or sexism. i'm simply saying that we've had a southern white guy in the white house for the past 20 years. people want a change for the sake of change at this point
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20 years?
Johnson - Texas '63 - '69
Nixon - So Cal '69 - '74
Ford - Michigan '74 - '77 (Never Elected !!!)
Carter - Georgia '77 - '81
Reagan - So CAl '81 - '89
GHW Bush - Texas '89 - '93
Clinton - Arkansas '93 - '01
GW Bush - Texas '01 - '08
Only christian white men from the south (Both Bushes promoted themselves as Texans...) or from So Cal (Nixon was a native, Reagan a transplant....), after JFK in 1960....(and even 1960 election is debatable...it was so close...<a href="http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PopularMythsPopularVote-Gaines.pdf">
[link]</a>) ...have clearly won the popular vote for presidency in the last 75 years.
Hoover was born in Iowa.... Harding in Ohio. Coolidge, from Vermont, succeeded Harding when he suddenly died in office, and he was elected to his own term in 1924. The last man elected without first assuming office, and finishing the term of another president, who was from a northern state, with no ties to a southern state, was Warren Harding, in 1920!
If Nixon did actually win the popular vote in 1960, then we can add two more presidents to the list:
Truman - Missouri - '45 - '53
Eisenhower - Texas - '53 - '61
Not since FDR, if we don't count JFK's "squeaker", electoral college victory in 1960, has a president from a northern state won the presidency, and even FDR had strong ties to the state of Georgia, where he lived for several years preceding his 1932 presidential victory, and where he died in 1945.
The odds seem to be against a nominee, if the history of the last 75 years of presidential politics are any guide, who is clearly identified as a "northerner".