Then he would have been elected President.
Agreed that Nixon wins in 1960 had he won the Black vote. However, didn't Blacks begin voting Democratic (at least outside of the Southern U.S., where they generally couldn't vote during this time) in the 1930s?Without a doubt. In 1960, it was JFK's call to Coretta King and his efforts to get MLK out of prison that shifted the black vote to Democrats. This could easily not have happened and without it, JFK probably would have lost since in 1960, the black vote tended to be Republican. It almost certainly would have shifted enough votes in Illinois to give Nixon an electoral college win.
POD: Nixon decides to make the call as VP his would be more powerful but I wonder if EIsenhower would allow it. In this scenario would a Nixon civil rights act pass and would it be stronger than otl?
Don't see a swing towards Bush. I just see baseline of slow, steady increase since low ebb of '84.. . . (there was a swing towards Bush in 1992 among black voters).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964So the big change was 1964?
Is it possible that Nixon adopted the southern strategy in 1968 to punish blacks for voting against him in 1960?
Is it possible that Nixon adopted the southern strategy in 1968 to punish blacks for voting against him in 1960?
First off, please notice how late school desegregation was in the United States. I mean, it was way the hell after the 1954 Court decision.http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133
' . . . In 1969, the first year of desegregation [in the state of Mississippi], the number of white students enrolled in public schools in Holmes County dropped from 771 to 28; the following year, that number fell to zero. . . '
So, yes, Dick Nixon did the right thing. Maybe not as proactively as he good be. Nixon pandered. He appealed to the worse of the South. He made public statements which seemed to support racist sentiment,* and then seemed to quietly work for desegregation.*http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133
' . . . Later that year [1970], President Richard Nixon ordered the Internal Revenue Service to enact a new policy denying tax exemptions to all segregated schools in the United States. . . '