[driftless2]

The big loss of the black vote for Republicans occurred during the '64 campaign and not in the seventies. In 1960 Nixon got 32% of the black vote. By opposing civil rights legislation Goldwater only got about 6% of the black vote in '64.

The so-called southern strategy is a myth concocted by liberals. There wasn't one program created by the '64 civil rights bill that Nixon stopped. There were no covert, subliminal appeals to racist southern whites to vote for Republicans. The fact was a very socially liberal Nixon was not as radical as George McGovern.

[dfwgator]

Blacks loved Kennedy, that’s what put them in the Democratic camp once and for all.