Rough day for American historians or, really, anyone who knows anything at all about American history.https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1286062521271693315 …
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I was a grade schooler in Jim Crow & post-Jim Crow North Carolina. In 1968, Humphrey, Wallace, & Nixon split the popular vote, ~1/3 each. Nixon, the NC electoral victor, was the choice of enlightened racists. You think too highly of US voters.
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Consider: we have made SO MUCH PROGRESS in civil rights in the USA in my lifetime. And yet a transparent racist got 46% of the US popular vote....in 2016. How racist was the 1968 electorate?
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