Democrat except 1968, when he left the party and ran as an independent. Running as the nominees of the American Independent Party, the Wallace ticket won 5 states. Its best result was in Alabama, where it received 65.9% of the vote. Wallace was the official Democratic nominee in Alabama and Hubert Humphrey was listed as the "National Democratic" candidate. See also Blue Dog Democrats Boll weevil (politics) Bourbon Democrat Conservative Democrat Democrat In Name Only Democratic Party history Jeffersonian democracy Democratic Leadership Council Democratic Party Ku Klux Klan National Democratic Party New Democrats Rockefeller Republican Yellow dog Democrats Solid South Straight-Out Democratic Party Notes South of the Mason–Dixon line Carter won just 34 electoral votes – his own Georgia, plus Delaware, Maryland, and District of Columbia. References Further reading Barone, Michael, and others. The Almanac of American Politics 1976: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors: Their Records and Election Results, Their States and Districts (1975–2017); new edition every 2 years; detailed political profile of every governor and member of Congress, as well as state and district politics Bateman, David, Ira Katznelson and John S. Lapinski. (2020). Southern Nation: Congress and white supremacy after reconstruction. Princeton University Press. Black, Earl and Merle Black. Politics and Society in the South (1989) Bullock III, Charles S. and Mark J. Rozell, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Southern Politics (2012) Bullock, Charles S.; MacManus, Susan A.; Mayer, Jeremy D.; Rozell, Mark J. (2019). The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics. Oxford University Press. Glaser, James M. The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics (2013) Key, V. O. Southern Politics in State and Nation (1951), famous classic Kuziemko, Ilyana, and Ebonya Washington. "Why did the Democrats lose the south? Bringing new data to an old debate" ( No. w21703. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015.) online Rae, Nicol C. Southern Democrats (Oxford University Press, 1994) Richter, William L. Historical Dictionary of the Old South (2005) Shafer, Byron E. The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South (2006) excerpt and text search Twyman, Robert W. and David C. Roller, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern History LSU Press (1979). Woodard, J. David. The New Southern Politics (2006) Democratic Party (United States) Politics of the Southern United States Political terminology of the United States Factions in the Democratic Party (United States) Dixiecrats