How did most racist white southerners vote in every election?

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

What a vague and arbitrary question. How do you define racism? By modern and especially Atlas standards 90% or more of white southerners (and whites in most areas of the US)  would have been “racist” until the 80s or 90s. What do you define as the South? Only the former confederacy or do you include Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia?

By modern standards and having a loose definition for the South Truman and LBJ most likely beat Thurmond and Goldwater in this “demographic” by virtue of winning more (and generally states with a larger voting population) Southern states. In regards to 28, 52, 56, 68 and 76 it was probably quite close and for 60 I’d give JFK an advantage.

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

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.

Um no?

Yeah elections guy is wrong on this one. Thurmond was a conservative who voted for Eisenhower in 1952 and Eisenhower won a number of black belt/lowland counties that year which were Thurmond’s strongest areas in 1948.