What’s wrong with that question?! It is a perfectly legitimate question considering the place and time. You forget what the southern white men did to black people in the decades prior? Weren’t southern white men synonymous with racism at that time? So, why did they vote for the southern white guy instead of the white guy from the west coast? The only conclusion you can draw, is that he was a democrat. What is so tiring, is that every statement made concerning white and black is racist.
That's what I was getting at, though I guess I did a poor job of making the point.