Chicago 1968 Results By Ward

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Hello,

Foucalf and did a little project today. I found this summary of the vote totals by ward that was published in the Chicago Tribune after the election, along with a map of the ward boundaries set in 1961 after the census:


 

Using that data, I created a table in Google Sheets, which we then used for the maps. So here we go:

First, the table I made, from Ward 1 to 50:



Here is the city, by winner in each ward:


And here is Wallace's share by ward:


My table, sorted by Wallace's strongest wards:

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Wallace doing best in the now super-black southeast of Chicago is pretty ironic.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Wallace doing best in the now super-black southeast of Chicago is pretty ironic.

It was not super-black back then, but rather smack in the middle of the racial transition.

In the late-1960s, neighborhoods like South Shore, Auburn Gresham, Chatham and Englewood had already flipped to majority black, while Roseland was right on the 50-50 mark, while South Chicago and South Deering were getting there.

The residents of East Side and Hegewisch, while not subject to a large influx of black residents, feared that they were next, and also saw an influx of white flight residents from the aforementioned neighborhoods.

The 1960 - 1980 period was a time of mind-numbingly fast demographic changes in many neighborhoods in Chicago, and the period 1968 to 1975 was especially intense. The city estimated that 500,000 white people left the city in those years after the MLK riots.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Wallace doing best in the now super-black southeast of Chicago is pretty ironic.

It was not super-black back then, but rather smack in the middle of the racial transition.

In the late-1960s, neighborhoods like South Shore, Auburn Gresham, Chatham and Englewood had already flipped to majority black, while Roseland was right on the 50-50 mark, while South Chicago and South Deering were getting there.

The residents of East Side and Hegewisch, while not subject to a large influx of black residents, feared that they were next, and also saw an influx of white flight residents from the aforementioned neighborhoods.

The 1960 - 1980 period was a time of mind-numbingly fast demographic changes in many neighborhoods in Chicago, and the period 1968 to 1975 was especially intense. The city estimated that 500,000 white people left the city in those years after the MLK riots.

yeah, that's what I had assumed. Lots of racial tension

[Yelnoc]

This is awesome, well done guys!!

[King of Kensington]

Why is 47 a lone Nixon island?

[Mr. Illini]

Wallace doing best in the now super-black southeast of Chicago is pretty ironic.

It was not super-black back then, but rather smack in the middle of the racial transition.

In the late-1960s, neighborhoods like South Shore, Auburn Gresham, Chatham and Englewood had already flipped to majority black, while Roseland was right on the 50-50 mark, while South Chicago and South Deering were getting there.

The residents of East Side and Hegewisch, while not subject to a large influx of black residents, feared that they were next, and also saw an influx of white flight residents from the aforementioned neighborhoods.

The 1960 - 1980 period was a time of mind-numbingly fast demographic changes in many neighborhoods in Chicago, and the period 1968 to 1975 was especially intense. The city estimated that 500,000 white people left the city in those years after the MLK riots.

Worth noting that the area where the 10th ward is still doesn’t have a large Black population. It is mostly Latino with a good amount of WWC folks left too.

Why is 47 a lone Nixon island?

Good question. I lived in that area for awhile. Only thing I can think of is it is the traditional German neighborhood of the city… wonder if that is related?

[Sumner 1868]

With a few exceptions, the Wallace map is basically a map of where people voted against Harold Washington in 1983.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Chicago-1983-mayor-by-ward.svg/800px-Chicago-1983-mayor-by-ward.svg.png

[ReaganLimbaugh]

This is really amazing.  Thanks for all the legwork on this.