Recent detailed data
Trifectas
Key reason is that the South went from near-solid blue to near-solid red:
Party breakdown in Southern lower houses, post-1968 election (Democrat-Republican)
Alabama........ 106-0
Arkansas..........98-2
Florida............77-42
Georgia.........169-26
Louisiana.......105-0
Mississippi....122-0
N. Carolina.....91-29
S. Carolina.....119-5
Tennessee.......49-49
Texas.............142-8
Virginia...........86-14
The Result: Meth Labs of Democracy
Governors are different. Blue-state Republicans and our favorite red-state Democrat.
Presidents and Parties
The Obama Effect
See Schier, p. 73:
Decline in split-ticket districts 1972-2012 (Schier 77)
And in 2016:
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