I think there was a town in Massachusetts that voted this way
There almost certainly wasn’t. Johnson won MA by 53 points. And his weakest County (which he still won by 14) voted for Nixon by 23 points.
oh ok. I noticed from looking at the map just how blue MA swung in 1964 from 1960... which means a lot of people that did not vote for Kennedy voted for Johnson?!?
Goldwater was successfully portrayed by Johnson as a right-wing extremist, which made him unpopular nationwide, but especially so in the liberal bastion of New England. Additionally, the mourning over JFK, an even stronger force in Massachusetts, made Johnson cruise to an extremely easy victory. What’s interesting is that Johnson’s landslide was not as massive as it would have been earlier in the election season- some polls around Spring Time showed Johnson wiki a 40-50 point lead nationwide.
