President Kennedy could hardly be mistaken for Hubert Humphrey concerning civil rights. Soft on communism? Kennedy was considered a redhot cold warrior. Maybe the Texans really didn’t dislike him so.
I’m telling you what I observed as someone who actually lived during the time in North Central Louisiana, and kept up with the news.
I was ten in 1950 and thirteen in 1963, but I read newspapers, news magazines, and watched network and local news.
Had he lived, the five states that went for Goldwater over LBJ would have gone for Goldwater over JFK, and quite a few more, Texas included. After all, that was Kennedy’s purpose in going to Texas in November of 1963 - it was a CAMPAIGN trip.
That’s my opinion, and I’m sticking to it.