Voter turnout (%VAP) swing maps

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1960-1972: Prior to 1964 not only were Blacks prevented from voting in the Deep South, but white women and even poor white men were not encouraged to vote. In 1964 white women and poor whites generally voted for the first time in large numbers, energized by their opposition to the Civil Rights act, alongside the Black first time voters. In 1964 in Mississippi, the Goldwater vote alone exceeded by a wide margin the total number of voters in any previous presidential election. This trend continued in 1968, when George Wallace received more votes in Mississippi than the total number of votes in 1964 (with similar results in Alabama). In 1972 the vote declined, without Wallace and without the "young kids on bikes" for McGovern which characterized some Northern cities and towns. Much of the 1968 decline was due to militant Black dissatisfaction with Humphrey, but the fact remains 1968 was the last time till 2008 that voter turnout was over 60%.