tractorboy280
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« on: February 22, 2023, 02:27:22 PM » |
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As I understand it, east Tennessee had no slavery which lead to the area being heavily Republican from the Civil War, through the Jim Crow era, to the present day.
Because of this background, it seems like the kind of place you would expect LBJ to win in a landslide in 1964, but he didn't. My question is, what happened in the hundred years after the Civil War to turn east Tennessee from being pro-civil rights (or at least anti-slavery), to voting for Goldwater?
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