KC Johnson

• Daniel Williams, “The GOP’s Abortion Strategy: Why Pro-Choice Republicans Became Pro-Life in the 1970s,” Journal of Policy History (2011).
• Robert Freedman, “The Religious Right and the Carter Administration,” The Historical Journal
• The Economist remembers North Carolina senator Jesse Helms
• The Economist, Jesse Helms as Senator No (page 1, 2)
• Jerome L. Himmelstein and James A. McRae, Jr., “Social Conservatism, New Republicans, and the 1980 Election,” The Public Opinion Quarterly
• Reagan campaign ad:

  Carter campaign ad:

  1980 campaign map:

  

   

1978 Senate Elections, map: