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U.S. Voting Blocs: Groups of States That Have Been Won by the Same Candidate in Every Presidential Election Since 1960.

by delugetheory:

If anyone is wondering why I chose 1960 as the cut-off date, it’s for two reasons. 1960 is the first election year that the U.S. had all 50 of its present states. It’s also right about the time of the beginning of the Republican Southern Strategy that saw the major realignment of the Republican and Democratic parties in response to the Civil Rights movement, which gave us the parties as they exist today.

I didn’t include them in the map, but I did come up with some names for the blocs as I was creating the map:

• The Dixie Alliance (AL, MS)
• The Pioneer Alliance (AK, ID, KS, ND, NE, OK, SD, UT, WY)
• The Appalachian Alliance (KY, TN)
• The Mountain Republic Alliance (CA, VT)
• The Midland Alliance (IL, NJ)
• The Island Alliance (HI, RI)