Podgy the Bear
mollybecky
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« Reply #25 on: May 08, 2015, 05:44:25 PM » |
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Quite possibly, Goldwater's voting for the Civil Rights Act would have kept some of the black vote on the Republican side. Nixon received a third of the black vote in 1960; it dropped to 5% by 1964.
Keeping everything else the same, if Goldwater had received even 20-25% of the black vote, it may have swung Florida to Goldwater (only other close states such as Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska wouldn't have enough blacks to make much of a difference). More significant, it may have kept the black vote somewhat bipartisan and would have ramifications lasting to today.
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