re: Has a dem, at any point in the last 60 years, won a presidential election legitimately

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Jimmy Carter swung a lot of traditional GOP states in the south because he was from the south.

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there were no traditional Republican states in the south in 1976. With the notable exception of Nixon (who won the South based on anti-Red bona fides), the Old South been voting Democrat in presidential elections for a century.

Hell, they voted against Eisenhower.