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    • Source: 1968 United States presidential election in North Carolina

      • The 1968 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 5, 1968, and was part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Whereas in the Deep South, Black Belt whites had deserted the national Democratic Party in 1948, in North Carolina, where they had historically been an economically liberalizing influence on the state Democratic Party, the white landowners of the Black Belt had stayed exceedingly loyal to the party until after the Voting Rights Act. This allowed North Carolina to be, along with Arkansas, the only state to vote for Democrats in all four presidential elections between 1952 and 1964. Indeed, the state had not voted Republican since anti-Catholic fervor lead it to support Herbert Hoover over Al Smith in 1928; and other than that the state had not voted Republican once in the century since the Reconstruction era election of 1872. Nonetheless, in 1964 Republican Barry Goldwater may have won a small majority of white voters, although he was beaten by virtually universal support for incumbent President Lyndon Johnson by a black vote estimated at 175 thousand.
      However, with the Voting Rights Act's passage, a reaction set in amongst these, and indeed amongst almost all Southern poor whites outside the unionized coalfields of Appalachia. Former Alabama Governor George Wallace, running in North Carolina under the moniker of the “American Party”, appealed very strongly to most white voters in the eastern half of the state who had become extremely critical of black protesters, student radicals, and rising crime rates.
      In early polls it was thought that Wallace would carry the state, but a major swing against him and toward Republican nominee Richard Nixon during October and November saw Nixon win the state, with 39.5 percent of the vote, whilst Wallace's 31.3 percent still pushed Democratic nominee and incumbent Vice-President Hubert Humphrey into third on 29.2 percent. The Alabama segregationist carried almost all of the Piedmont and Outer Banks, and some Black Belt areas where black voter registration was still limited – the very areas that had allowed John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson II to carry North Carolina when other Outer South states went Republican. In these previously loyal regions whites felt President Johnson had moved much too far on civil rights issues, and consequent support for highly segregationist candidates in Democratic primary elections led them naturally to Wallace. Humphrey had very limited support outside of black voters, who were estimated to comprise well over half his total vote in the state, with his share of the white vote totaling less than 20 percent and coming mainly from some traditionally Democratic mountain counties and the university communities of Orange and Durham counties. 48% of white voters supported Nixon, 41% supported Wallace, and 12% supported Humphrey.
      Nixon won twelve of the state's electoral votes, while one faithless elector that had been pledged to Nixon voted instead for Wallace. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Wayne County and Lenoir County did not vote for the Republican presidential candidate.


      Results




      = Results by county

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      Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican


      Watauga
      Ashe
      Clay
      Graham
      Cherokee
      Jackson
      Mecklenburg
      Madison
      Macon
      Yancey
      Surry
      Swain
      Caldwell
      Forsyth
      Guilford
      Lincoln
      Alleghany
      Rutherford
      Transylvania
      Buncombe
      Polk
      Rowan
      Wake
      Moore
      McDowell
      Haywood
      Carteret
      Sampson
      Stokes
      Gaston
      Montgomery
      Dare
      Chatham
      Union
      New Hanover


      Counties that flipped from Democratic to American Independent


      Alamance
      Harnett
      Rockingham
      Cleveland
      Brunswick
      Pitt
      Johnston
      Lee
      Wayne
      Onslow
      Edgecombe
      Columbus
      Pamlico
      Richmond
      Hyde
      Person
      Nash
      Wilson
      Chowan
      Craven
      Bladen
      Beaufort
      Granville
      Halifax
      Anson
      Vance
      Lenoir
      Duplin
      Warren
      Pasquotank
      Gates
      Caswell
      Pender
      Martin
      Jones
      Perquimans
      Currituck
      Franklin
      Greene
      Camden


      Notes




      References




      Works cited


      Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674941306.

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