I've often wondered this for some time. Had Barry Goldwater voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, how would the results of that election been? Obviously, he wouldn't have gotten 87% in Mississippi or 68% in Alabama, but would have he been able to hold states like Vermont, Kansas, Nebraska and possibly even Florida and Virginia?
And how would the Deep Southern states have voted?
I really don't understand how Mississppi gave only 13% to Johnson and Alabama only 30%. There would have had to have been like no blacks voting for that to happen.
well....see, the thing is........
