How did most racist white southerners vote in every election?

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Why didn’t the unpledged Democratic electors win in Alabama in 1964?

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Smith won the most racist parts in 1928. Hoover did best where Anti-Catholicism and "Dryness" were more prominent enough to contend with race and segregation.

Did Smith also do better where support for free trade was stronger?

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I'll just say they continued voting Democrat for longer than people here would believe. The strongest areas for Thurmond and Wallace in the south were some of the last counties to flip Republican, many of them took until after Bill Clinton. There's counties in northern Alabama that voted for Gore and against interracial marriage in 2000.

However, Thurmond was conservative on non-racial issues as well and supported every GOP nominee starting with Eisenhower.