I assume there must have been some extreme anti-Catholicism at play there in 1960, because that's really the only explanation I can come up with for why a county swung almost 122% Democratic even as the state it's located in swung over 30% to Goldwater. either that, or somehow the vote totals have been switched but that doesn't seem to be the case. then again, I'm not sure why such an apparently ardently anti-Catholic county would give a supermajority to a very pro-civil rights Democrat just 4 years later. it's certainly an oddity.
"What's the Matter With Long County, Georgia?"
