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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 catalyzed the trend of the South moving towards the Republicans and caused black support for the GOP to go from around ~30% to ~10%.

Had Nixon been president in 1960 and been the one to push through a civil rights bill, how would it have affected political alignments in the US?

The Conservative movement was already noticeably more tied to the Republican party than the Democrats and I'm not sure that could change due to the economics of the party.

Reagan won't be elected in 1966 without A Time for Choosing. Odds are Goldwater will be the Conservative candidate in 1968 here, though I doubt the GOP could feasibly clinch a fifth term.

In 1968 the Democrats will either be the party of the cultural backlash (Johnson triangulating or Scoop Jackson being the nominee perhaps?) or a cultural-conservative movement may just fare particularly well against two pro-civil rights candidates.
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