![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn't matter whether Goldwater or Nixon were actually racists or wanted racist outcomes (for the record they were - though not as rabidly or overtly as the voters they courted - though Nixon as a matter of fact was a bigger supporter of civil rights than Kennedy was in 1960 and Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for federal overreach ). The South had, until that point, been a solidly Democratic voting bloc, often called the 'Solid South.' Nixon, taking note of this, campaigned on subtle states' rights themes in 19 in an attempt to keep the Deep South in the Republican column. He was able to do this because of his voting record against anti-racism legislation versus the incumbent, Lyndon Johnson, who was in favor of civil rights. ![]() In 1964, Barry Goldwater accomplished a task that, until then, had been seen as physically impossible - he won five states in the Deep South for the Republican Party, which had been seen for the past hundred years as the party of Abraham Lincoln and the 'War of Northern Aggression.' Even more incredibly, those five states were, apart from Goldwater's home state of Arizona, the only states that he won in what was otherwise a Democratic landslide, turning established political battle lines on their heads. ![]()
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