Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional party lines. Instead of the convulsive upheaval that many had foreseen, the election was unpredictably normal in several important respects. Up to a point, the voting patterns followed those of 1960; the Democrats drew their strength largely from the big industrial states of the Northeast, plus Michigan, West Virginia, Minnesota and Texas. Richard Nixon, as he had eight years ago, attracted the Republican faithful of the suburbs. He carried virtually the same Midwestern states that he had won against John Kennedy, as well as the entire Far West and several peripheral Southern states, including Florida, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky...
...November election, are committed by tradition in most states to vote for their party's candidate. However, the electors are generally free to vote for anyone who meets the constitutional requirements of age, residence and citizenship. In 1960, for example, one Republican elector from Oklahoma voted for Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd...
...WEST VIRGINIA...
...hills of West Virginia, where Humphrey's 1960 Presidential campaign came grinding to a halt, were a good bit kinder to him this time around. He carried the state's 7 electoral votes easily, polling 52 per cent of the vote, to 38 for Nixon and 7 per cent for Wallace...
Democrats were leading in Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, North Dakota, and West Virginia...