1964 US-Präsidentschaftswahl nach Landkreisen – Die erste Wahl nach dem Civil Rights Act
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1964 US-Präsidentschaftswahl nach Landkreisen – Die erste Wahl nach dem Civil Rights Act
Von Senior-Foot-5316
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Why did voters in MS and northern LA vote so much more strongly for Goldwater than those in counties right across the border in AR, TN, and TX?
The effect of the Conservative southern wing of the Democratic party being thrown under the bus by the passage of the 1964 CRA
A massive swing away from the Dems to the GOP in the south. So massive that even if every single 1960 GOP voter and every single newly registered Black voter voted GOP in 1964, you still need huge numbers of Dems to jump ship.
ETA My oh my the right does not like it when you show them the evidence of the southern strategy
Mississippi wins again!
I’d say „Oh Confederate states, never change“ but they weren’t going to anyway
Here is a map of the swing from 1960 to 1964: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/U.S._1960_to_1964_presidential_election_swing.svg/2560px-U.S._1960_to_1964_presidential_election_swing.svg.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/U.S._1960_to_1964_presidential_election_swing.svg/2560px-U.S._1960_to_1964_presidential_election_swing.svg.png)
The Deep South is *really* an outlier within the larger South, and within the US a whole, with regards to race. The plantation culture of the Antebellum era was just bad in a way that persists longer than anyone would expect. Good book on the topic: [Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics](https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Roots-Southern-Princeton-Political/dp/0691176744)
Interesting that Alaska’s burough system was created in 1964.
Texas would have been redder were it not for LBJ.
LBJ was right when he said passing the act would lose the South for 100 years.
I wonder if Texans know they’re getting more like Mississippi?
Rigt
Weird since FAR more % Republicans voted YEA for the Civil Riights Act than Democrats. Oh….
You can see the borders of South aka French Louisiana so clearly here. I wonder if this was leftover from fondness for JFK because he was a Catholic cuz that’s now one of the most reliably Republican voting blocs in the country outside of New Orleans
Goldwater was the first Republican to win GA and lose VT in a presidential election.