Campaign Spot: Southerner Jimmy Carter (1976)

Campaign Spot: Southerner Jimmy Carter (1976)

Carter reminds his fellow southerners that there had not been a president from the deep South since 1848, in a radio commercial meant to appeal to the deep South. Ultimately Carter won this region, but Ford got more white southern votes.

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