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To: Michelino who wrote (39534)4/15/2004 2:17:40 PM
From: Brian Sullivan  Read Replies (1) of 793896
 
In the south the whites voted for the Dixiecrats (i.e Democrats) prior to 1964. So you should not assume that millions of Black voters would have voted for the Kennedy/LBJ ticket in 1960. After reconstruction in the south the only black candidates that ever were elected to Congress were Republicans.

usatoday.com

Those who think African Americans have an unbreakable link to the Democratic Party could benefit from a history lesson. Richard Nixon won 32 percent of the black vote in the 1960 presidential election. Four years earlier, Dwight Eisenhower tallied 39 percent of that vote when he gained a second term in the White House.

So what happened?

Black support for Republican presidential candidates plummeted in 1964 when Barry Goldwater, then a civil rights opponent and states' rights advocate, was the GOP standard-bearer. He got just 6 percent of the black vote that year. Since then, no Republican presidential candidate has pulled in more than 15 percent of the black vote in a general election.
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