question for people from Texas specifically Dallas or Houston

I was looking at election Atlases. Here is an interesting fact. JFK in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, and Jimmy Carter in 1976 all won the state of Texas but lost Harris and Dallas Counties. Harris County is where Houston is and Dallas County is where Dallas is.

This surprised me because I always thought that traditionally the city areas are going to be the most democratic voting parts of the state. If you can't win in the urbanmost counties, you sure as hell can't win the state and even if you do win the urban counties it doesn't guarantee winning the state as Obama won Dallas and Harris counties in '08 yet lost Texas.

So what were those areas like back in those days and how do you think it is possible to lose in the major cities yet win the state?

Be in the 2nd largest state in the union.

If they lost them by 2 or 3% it's easy to make it up in the rest of the state.

Jesus, you're equating Dallas & Houston of 2010 with those of 50 fucking years ago.

:eyes:

dg

Nixon won Harris County 51.7-45.6-2.7 and Dallas County 62.2-37-.8 in 1960. He won Harris again in 1968 by 42.9-38.8-18.3 with many voting for Wallace and won Dallas again in 1968 50.7-34.1-15.2. In 1976 Ford won Harris County 52.2-47-.8 and Dallas County 56.7-42.3-1.

Texas has changed a bit since 1960. We even have this new-fangled do-dad called "the Internet." Ever heard of it?

dg