1976 United States presidential election in Mississippi
At that time , excluding the wins of Strom Thurmond in 1948 , the unpledged electors who voted for Harry F . Byrd in 1960 , Barry Goldwater in 1964 , George Wallace in 1968 , and Nixon in 1972 , Carter’s performance in Mississippi was the worst for a post-Reconstruction Democratic presidential candidate , as he failed to win a majority of the vote . 
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