1960 United States presidential election in North Carolina

none June 2025 September 2023 1960 United States presidential election 1960 United States presidential election in North Carolina North Carolina 1885 presidential no 1956 United States presidential election in North Carolina 1956 1964 United States presidential election in North Carolina 1964 All 14 North Carolina votes to the Electoral College November 8, 1960https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1960 United States Presidential election of 1960 — Encyclopædia Britannica June 8, 2017 x200px Jfk2 (3x4).jpg John F. Kennedy Democratic Party (United States) Massachusetts Lyndon B. Johnson 14 713,136 52.11% Richard Nixon official portrait as Vice President (cropped).tiff Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) California Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 0 655,420 47.89% 400px County results 400px Congressional district results Kennedy #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Nixon #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% President Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) John F. Kennedy Democratic Party (United States) The 1960 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 14https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1953_1957.html#1960 1960 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65) June 8, 2017 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. As a former Confederate state, North Carolina had a history of Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party in state politics. However, unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party always had sufficient historic Unionist white support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain minimally one-quarter and usually one-third of the statewide vote in general elections,Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 978-0-691-16324-6 210, 242 Kevin Phillips (political commentator) where turnout was higher than elsewhere in the former Confederacy due substantially to the state's early abolition of the poll tax in 1920.Key Valdimer Orlando Southern Politics in State and Nation 502 Alfred A. Knopf 1949 Like Virginia, Tennessee and Oklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina never had statewide white primaries, although certain counties did use a white primary until it was banned by Smith v. Allwright.Klarman Michael J. The White Primary Rulings: A Case Study in the Consequences of Supreme Court Decision-Making Florida State University Law Review 29 2001 55–107 Following the banning of white primaries by the Supreme Court, North Carolina in 1948 offered less support to the Dixiecrat bolt than any other former Confederate state, due to the economic liberalism of its Black Belt and solid Democratic party discipline due to consistent Republican opposition.Guthrie Paul Daniel The Dixiecrat Movement of 1948 Bowling Green State University August 1955 144207 183 Although there was little satisfaction with Harry S. Truman during his second term,Grayson A.G. December 1975 North Carolina and Harry Truman, 1944-1948 Journal of American Studies 9 3 283–300 10.1017/S0021875800003005 the loyalty of the white voters of the state's Black Belt and the previously anti-Al Smith Outer Banks meant that unlike Texas, Florida and Virginia, urban middle-class Republican voting was inadequate to carry North Carolina for Dwight D. Eisenhower in either 1952Strong Donald S. August 1955 The Presidential Election in the South, 1952 The Journal of Politics 17 3 343–389 10.1017/S0022381600091064 or 1956. Aiding this failure was that the growing urban black electorate, which had increased from under ten percent of voting-age blacks in 1940 to about a quarter in 1956,Christensen Rob The paradox of Tar Heel politics: the personalities, elections, and events that shaped modern North Carolina The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics University of North Carolina Press 2008 9780807831892 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 264–265 was much more favourable to Adlai Stevenson II than in other former Confederate states.It is estimated that in 1956 Eisenhower gained under forty percent of black voters in major North Carolina cities, whereas he gained over seventy percent in Atlanta and Richmond and over half in Memphis.Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 299 In the 1958 midterm elections, Republicans in the state legislature were reduced to their lowest ever representation of five seats, although Charles R. Jonas did hold the Tenth District. North Carolina would largely escape the overt “Massive Resistance” seen in neighbouring Virginia,Christensen. The paradox of Tar Heel politics, pp. 155-156 and four of its congressmen did not sign the Southern Manifesto.Southerners Who Refused To Sign the Southern Manifesto Badger Tony The Historical Journal 42 2 1999 528–532 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0018246X98008346 Nonetheless, although the Greensboro school board voted 6–1 to desegregate within a day of Brown,Telgen Diane Brown v. Board of Education 2005 Omnigraphics Detroit, Michigan 9780780807754 78 no serious desegregation would occur until well into the 1960s, while two non-signers would be challenged and defeated in 1956 primaries.These were Charles B. Deane and Richard Thurmond Chatham. With the likely nomination of Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy to counter Eisenhower's Catholic appeal in the Northeast,Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 169-174 speculation emerged that the anti-Catholicism that turned North Carolina Republican in 1928 would again become a powerful force,Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 221 and many Baptist pastors in the state did raise the religious issue.Menendez Albert J. The religious factor in the 1960 Presidential election: an analysis of the Kennedy victory over anti-Catholic prejudice 2011 McFarland & Company Jefferson, North Carolina 9780786460373 32 During 1960, the state would be affected by the Greensboro sit-ins. Dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party on civil rights, as well as support for him amongst certain anti-Catholic groups, meant that incumbent vice-president and Republican nominee Richard Nixon gained an enthusiastic reception when touring the state early in his fall campaign.White Theodore Harold The making of the President, 1960 1961 Atheneum Publishers New York City 250, 268, 271 Polls in mid-October however favoured Kennedy,Alsop Joseph Dixie Democrats Feel Better and Thank You The Nashville Tennessean October 16, 1960 5-B and they continued to do so in the fourth week of the month.Poindexter Jesse Senator Jackson Says Kennedy Has Won Winston-Salem Journal October 22, 1960 Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1, 3 Results 1960 United States presidential election in North Carolina John F. Kennedy Democratic Party (United States) 713,136 52.11% Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) 655,420 47.89% 1,368,556 100.00% Results by county CountyOur Campaigns https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2590 NC US President Race, November 08, 1960John F. KennedyDemocraticRichard NixonRepublicanMarginTotal # % # % # % Alamance 13,599 47.86% 14,818 52.14% -1,219 -4.28% 28,417 Alexander 3,956 48.65% 4,175 51.35% -219 -2.70% 8,131 Alleghany 2,121 51.74% 1,978 48.26% 143 3.48% 4,099 Anson 4,120 72.07% 1,597 27.93% 2,523 44.14% 5,717 Ashe 4,477 48.14% 4,823 51.86% -346 -3.72% 9,300 Avery 1,047 20.05% 4,176 79.95% -3,129 -59.90% 5,223 Beaufort 6,039 69.15% 2,694 30.85% 3,345 38.30% 8,733 Bertie 3,682 86.45% 577 13.55% 3,105 72.90% 4,259 Bladen 4,353 70.13% 1,854 29.87% 2,499 40.26% 6,207 Brunswick 4,305 59.63% 2,915 40.37% 1,390 19.26% 7,220 Buncombe 23,303 45.39% 28,040 54.61% -4,737 -9.22% 51,343 Burke 10,015 43.66% 12,925 56.34% -2,910 -12.68% 22,940 Cabarrus 8,680 35.64% 15,678 64.36% -6,998 -28.72% 24,358 Caldwell 8,722 43.02% 11,553 56.98% -2,831 -13.96% 20,275 Camden 1,014 75.00% 338 25.00% 676 50.00% 1,352 Carteret 5,264 53.95% 4,493 46.05% 771 7.90% 9,757 Caswell 2,832 69.01% 1,272 30.99% 1,560 38.02% 4,104 Catawba 13,491 41.35% 19,135 58.65% -5,644 -17.30% 32,626 Chatham 4,683 52.09% 4,308 47.91% 375 4.18% 8,991 Cherokee 3,197 42.68% 4,294 57.32% -1,097 -14.64% 7,491 Chowan 1,920 78.27% 533 21.73% 1,387 56.54% 2,453 Clay 1,264 43.27% 1,657 56.73% -393 -13.46% 2,921 Cleveland 10,545 56.08% 8,257 43.92% 2,288 12.16% 18,802 Columbus 10,455 74.10% 3,655 25.90% 6,800 48.20% 14,110 Craven 7,158 66.05% 3,680 33.95% 3,478 32.10% 10,838 Cumberland 11,601 58.97% 8,072 41.03% 3,529 17.94% 19,673 Currituck 1,651 78.06% 464 21.94% 1,187 56.12% 2,115 Dare 1,247 54.10% 1,058 45.90% 189 8.20% 2,305 Davidson 13,118 41.10% 18,797 58.90% -5,679 -17.80% 31,915 Davie 2,471 34.04% 4,788 65.96% -2,317 -31.92% 7,259 Duplin 7,269 71.11% 2,953 28.89% 4,316 42.22% 10,222 Durham 19,298 57.40% 14,322 42.60% 4,976 14.80% 33,620 Edgecombe 8,046 77.93% 2,279 22.07% 5,767 55.86% 10,325 Forsyth 24,035 41.87% 33,374 58.13% -9,339 -16.26% 57,409 Franklin 5,081 82.10% 1,108 17.90% 3,973 64.20% 6,189 Gaston 20,104 48.61% 21,250 51.39% -1,146 -2.78% 41,354 Gates 1,549 80.09% 385 19.91% 1,164 60.18% 1,934 Graham 1,335 43.68% 1,721 56.32% -386 -12.64% 3,056 Granville 4,945 73.34% 1,798 26.66% 3,147 46.68% 6,743 Greene 3,092 87.27% 451 12.73% 2,641 74.54% 3,543 Guilford 30,486 42.43% 41,357 57.57% -10,871 -15.14% 71,843 Halifax 8,872 79.11% 2,343 20.89% 6,529 58.22% 11,215 Harnett 7,892 59.82% 5,301 40.18% 2,591 19.64% 13,193 Haywood 8,044 48.38% 8,583 51.62% -539 -3.24% 16,627 Henderson 4,611 29.85% 10,835 70.15% -6,224 -40.30% 15,446 Hertford 3,105 79.90% 781 20.10% 2,324 59.80% 3,886 Hoke 2,106 77.94% 596 22.06% 1,510 55.88% 2,702 Hyde 1,147 70.45% 481 29.55% 666 40.90% 1,628 Iredell 8,973 42.61% 12,085 57.39% -3,112 -14.78% 21,058 Jackson 3,900 49.26% 4,017 50.74% -117 -1.48% 7,917 Johnston 9,914 59.82% 6,660 40.18% 3,254 19.64% 16,574 Jones 1,920 76.65% 585 23.35% 1,335 53.30% 2,505 Lee 4,673 64.58% 2,563 35.42% 2,110 29.16% 7,236 Lenoir 8,126 68.96% 3,658 31.04% 4,468 37.92% 11,784 Lincoln 6,728 49.68% 6,816 50.32% -88 -0.64% 13,544 Macon 3,098 45.34% 3,735 54.66% -637 -9.32% 6,833 Madison 4,546 50.69% 4,422 49.31% 124 1.38% 8,968 Martin 5,826 88.77% 737 11.23% 5,089 77.54% 6,563 McDowell 4,889 44.30% 6,148 55.70% -1,259 -11.40% 11,037 Mecklenburg 39,362 44.93% 48,250 55.07% -8,888 -10.14% 87,612 Mitchell 1,174 19.55% 4,831 80.45% -3,657 -60.90% 6,005 Montgomery 3,297 47.47% 3,649 52.53% -352 -5.06% 6,946 Moore 5,548 48.83% 5,815 51.17% -267 -2.34% 11,363 Nash 10,086 72.14% 3,896 27.86% 6,190 44.28% 13,982 New Hanover 13,182 57.42% 9,775 42.58% 3,407 14.84% 22,957 Northampton 4,756 87.52% 678 12.48% 4,078 75.04% 5,434 Onslow 5,564 66.43% 2,812 33.57% 2,752 32.86% 8,376 Orange 7,180 57.85% 5,231 42.15% 1,949 15.70% 12,411 Pamlico 1,697 61.53% 1,061 38.47% 636 23.06% 2,758 Pasquotank 4,530 71.26% 1,827 28.74% 2,703 42.52% 6,357 Pender 2,744 68.29% 1,274 31.71% 1,470 36.58% 4,018 Perquimans 1,460 69.62% 637 30.38% 823 39.24% 2,097 Person 4,305 69.09% 1,926 30.91% 2,379 38.18% 6,231 Pitt 12,526 78.37% 3,458 21.63% 9,068 56.74% 15,984 Polk 2,762 49.16% 2,856 50.84% -94 -1.68% 5,618 Randolph 9,789 38.30% 15,772 61.70% -5,983 -23.40% 25,561 Richmond 8,293 71.63% 3,285 28.37% 5,008 43.26% 11,578 Robeson 11,623 76.45% 3,580 23.55% 8,043 52.90% 15,203 Rockingham 11,207 54.24% 9,456 45.76% 1,751 8.48% 20,663 Rowan 12,919 42.16% 17,726 57.84% -4,807 -15.68% 30,645 Rutherford 8,554 48.75% 8,993 51.25% -439 -2.50% 17,547 Sampson 7,632 50.98% 7,338 49.02% 294 1.96% 14,970 Scotland 3,643 74.01% 1,279 25.99% 2,364 48.02% 4,922 Stanly 8,259 42.71% 11,080 57.29% -2,821 -14.58% 19,339 Stokes 4,487 47.94% 4,872 52.06% -385 -4.12% 9,359 Surry 8,185 44.92% 10,035 55.08% -1,850 -10.16% 18,220 Swain 2,171 50.69% 2,112 49.31% 59 1.38% 4,283 Transylvania 3,388 44.53% 4,221 55.47% -833 -10.94% 7,609 Tyrrell 926 72.63% 349 27.37% 577 45.26% 1,275 Union 7,393 64.72% 4,030 35.28% 3,363 29.44% 11,423 Vance 5,694 73.89% 2,012 26.11% 3,682 47.78% 7,706 Wake 26,050 58.56% 18,436 41.44% 7,614 17.12% 44,486 Warren 2,997 80.69% 717 19.31% 2,280 61.38% 3,714 Washington 2,415 70.16% 1,027 29.84% 1,388 40.32% 3,442 Watauga 3,440 40.66% 5,020 59.34% -1,580 -18.68% 8,460 Wayne 7,856 58.93% 5,474 41.07% 2,382 17.86% 13,330 Wilkes 7,986 38.02% 13,016 61.98% -5,030 -23.96% 21,002 Wilson 8,021 72.03% 3,114 27.97% 4,907 44.06% 11,135 Yadkin 2,785 27.70% 7,268 72.30% -4,483 -44.60% 10,053 Yancey 3,310 50.20% 3,284 49.80% 26 0.40% 6,594Totals713,13652.11%655,42047.89%57,7164.22%1,368,556 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Alleghany Brunswick Dare Madison Rockingham Swain Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Haywood Jackson Analysis North Carolina was won by Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 52.11 percent of the popular vote against Nixon's 47.89 percent.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=37&year=1960 1960 Presidential General Election Results – North Carolina June 8, 2017https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1960 The American Presidency Project — Election of 1960 June 8, 2017 Despite suspected hostility in the state towards Kennedy's Catholicism, only in the traditionally Democratic parts of Appalachia and the previously extremely solid eastern part of the state did Kennedy decline upon Adlai Stevenson II’s 1956 performance, whilst Kennedy even gained in the Outer Banks where 1928 anti-Catholicism had been strongest. At the same time, the collapse of a long-standing political machine during the 1950s meant that Madison County, previously one of the strongest Republican bastions in the state, voted Democratic for the first time since 1876,Menendez Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 2005 McFarland & Company Jefferson, North Carolina 0786422173 88 whilst nearby Haywood County and Jackson County were the only counties to flip from Stevenson to Nixon. Kennedy was helped crucially by the increasing black voter registration that was totalling almost a third of the voting-age black population at the time of the election: it is estimated he received about seven-eighths of black voters in the urban precincts where they were concentrated, producing a substantial part of his sixty thousand vote statewide majority. This is the last time Mecklenburg County would vote for a Republican that would lose North Carolina's electoral votes. Notes References North Carolina 1960 Category:1960 North Carolina elections