u/MakeACreation

Of course, compared to today these would be amazing numbers for democrats that would guarantee the south to be a blue leaning region thanks to african americans and other minorities.

Overall, 55% of the White Vote in the South went to the republicans according to TIME.

If I had to guess, it would likely be because skepticism of the democratic party had already been entrenched in the south for over a decade since it had been more than 10 years since the civil rights act passed. In addition, a lot of Southerners were already quite fiscally conservative, indeed decades before under Truman: "^(2]) Also, while northern Democrats supported the Truman Administration's social welfare initiatives 91% of the time, the corresponding figure for southern Democrats was 46%".

The 1976 Democratic Platform advocated for strong unemployment programs headed by the government for example: "The federal government has the responsibility to ensure that all Americans able, willing and seeking work are provided opportunities for useful jobs."

The GOP Platform in contrast strenuously rejected Federal Unemployment programs: "Massive, federally-funded public employment programs.... will cost billions and can only be financed either through very large tax Increases or through ever increasing levels of deficit spending. Although such government "make-work" programs usually provide a temporary stimulus to the economy, "quick-fix" solutions of this sort lead to addition, larger and larger doses, and ultimately the destruction of far more jobs than they create. Sound job creation can only be accomplished in the private sector of the economy. Americans must not be fooled into accepting government as the employer of last resort."

While neither candidate was seen as especially liberal or conservative, Carter was clearly seen as the more liberal candidate of the two: "But once [Carter] joined battle in September with Mr. Ford, an avowed conservative, the voters switched again, rating the democrat as more liberal. Today the largest number (36 percent) call him liberal, 28 percent say moderate and 19 percent, conservative. But the plurality of Democratic voters see him as moderate.... For President Ford, the month‐tomonth responses have been remarkably consistent. Typically, nearly 40% called him conservative, 33% moderate, one in seven (14%) liberal, with the rest unsure."- NY Times, 10/19/76.

All in all, despite the fact that culture wars/social issues didn't play much of a role in this election, and it was combatted primarily on fiscal issues, most whites in the south still showed their hand as skewing fiscally conservative, after all it is Organized labor's weakest region in all of America and that is most likely why Carter did not win the white southern vote despite being one himself.

Interesting interview: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/us/politics/democrat-huffman-humanist-religion-christianity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

30 percent irreligious might be a bit low for dems, but then again the congresspeople tend to be older and older people tend to be more religious.

For reference, in 2020 latinos nationwide voted more democratic than whites in 49/50 states with the exception being vermont, as the hispanic vote was more dem than west coast whites and ran close with whites in Hawaii and Massachusetts (around D+30).

Obama won the caucus overwhelmingly in the state of Washington by about a 2-1 margin, but the primary (which was non-binding) was much closer, as he only won by single digits. He won every state that held a caucus instead of a primary, usually by overwhelming margins. He won the Colorado Caucus for instance 66.5-32.3, Minnesota 66-32, so what made him so popular with caucus goers as opposed to rank and file democrats?

Here's a spreadsheet for all 265 universities surveyed. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YmxUYC45cL0Kknbh0gjeLrnexkHv06N5GVrKP6L-aqk/edit?usp=sharing&pli=1&authuser=0

Source: https://x.com/ryanburge/status/2073809921670357454/photo/1

Overall, it seems clear that academia is democrat leaning seeing as apart from Hillsdale and Liberty there are far more democrats on conservative leaning campuses than vice versa. Its no surprise that there are several women's colleges on the most democratic (Scripps, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Smith, etc.)

In fact, much less people on the subreddit took the 'not at all comfortable' position on guns in public(20%) compared with 31% among the general public. I assume this is because 95% of the users on here are male though.

The Mamdani/DSA backed candidate primarily won in area with a high rate of college education and low shares of Hispanics which carried her to victory.