Word: goldwaterism
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Only a massive defection of Republicans to Johnson-based generally on the fear that Goldwater was simply too unpredictable to be trusted with one of the highest positions of leadership in the free world-could account for John- son's sweep of New England and the Midwest.
Town & Country. The small Protestant towns of New England had long been strongholds of Yankee conservatism; yet Johnson knocked them off consistently. Verona, Me., (pop. 435) went for Johnson 139 to 55-almost an exact reversal of its 1960 margin for Richard Nixon. Of Connecticut's 169 towns, Johnson...
The widespread fear that Goldwater might slash farm price supports and down- grade the Rural Electrification Administration helped lead to his sorry showing in the rural Midwest. Johnson almost wiped out the big G.O.P. margins traditional in downstate Illinois. He carried some rural areas of Wisconsin by an unprecedented 60...
City Sweep. Johnson's greatest triumphs, however, came in the nation's large cities. He cracked even such Republican metropolitan areas as Indian- apolis and Columbus, where the G.O.P. suffered from lack of organization and apathy toward Goldwater. Yet despite the prediction of a huge Johnson victory, Democratic...
proved far more concerned about TVA and social security than the race issue, voted for L.B.J. He even carried Gary, Ind., where racial tensions were taut and Alabama's Governor George Wallace had scored heavily in a presidential primary. The Johnson landslide also destroyed Republican theories that there might...