1964: Republican states HEAVILY for LBJ

[FerrisBueller86]

LBJ received about 60% of the vote.  But some of the states where he did better than this are surprising when you consider that they were normally Republican states at the time or states that are culturally similar to the states Goldwater won.  In other words, LBJ didn't just win these states, but he won them by an EVEN BIGGER margin than he did nationally.  Note that the >60% LBJ states include:
1.  Alaska, 66%, always heavily Republican ever since
2.  Colorado, 61%, only won since then by Clinton in 1992 and only with Perot's help
3.  Missouri, 64%, culturally similar to the South
4.  Kentucky, 64%, ditto
5.  Vermont, 66%, went Republican again through 1988
6.  New Hampshire, 64%, went back to being heavily Republican (2nd most Republican in 1988) before changing in 1992

[FerrisBueller86]

Let's put it another way.

If we change the 1964 results to give Goldwater every state that Johnson won with less than 60% of the vote, the electoral map looks like:


Doesn't that look strange?  Several of the LBJ states on this revised map are states that normally voted Republican at the time.