Why Did LBJ win Florida, the Upper South, and Idaho in 1964? (user search)
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TDAS04
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« on: December 12, 2016, 08:07:20 PM »
Quote from: Calthrina950 on December 12, 2016, 12:47:56 AM
And why wasn't white backlash enough in the Upper South to flip it to Goldwater?

The Upper South was not pro-civil rights, but it wasn't as an important issue as it was in the Deep South.  Also, the fact that LBJ was a Southerner (a Texan) may have helped.
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« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2019, 08:13:14 PM »
Also a bit funny that most Kennedy counties in Florida voted for George Wallace 8 years later.

Anyway, in addition to the Deep South/Upper South divide in 1964, there was a bit of a divide between states that seceded in the Civil War and those that did not.  LBJ took only 56% in Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, yet received a whopping 64% in Kentucky and 68% in West Virginia.  Kentucky and Tennessee rarely vote so differently.
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