In the election of 1964, Lyndon Johnson won by an electoral landslide. His opponent, ultraconservative Barry Goldwater, who had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, won the Deep South. What did this election demonstrate about the country in the mid-1960s

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Josiah Hebert

27 April, 20:39

In the election of 1964, Lyndon Johnson won by an electoral landslide. His opponent, ultraconservative Barry Goldwater, who had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, won the Deep South. What did this election demonstrate about the country in the mid-1960s

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The 1964 presidential election demonstrated that most Americans were willing to grant African Americans rights.

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The 1964 presidential election in the United States took place on November 3, 1964. The Democratic Party candidate was incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had moved to the White House only a year earlier, after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy. Senator Barry Goldwater stood for the Republican Party.

The main themes of the election campaign in the course of the civil rights movement were the civil rights of African Americans, the beginning of American involvement in Vietnam and the international role of the United States in the Cold War. The question of the civil rights of African Americans had a very strong weight in this election: Johnson advocated the sanction of the Civil Rights Act proposed by Kennedy, while Goldwater was a supporter of racial segregation.

Lyndon B. Johnson won the election very clearly. Only in a few southern states and his home state of Arizona, where Johnson's friendly policy towards African Americans was rejected, did Goldwater manage to get a majority vote. In all other states, the incumbent won the majority of the voters, and was re-elected for a full term as US president.