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About two-thirds of registered
black citizen voted on
Election Day and about 94
? - baUotfrfcr the Carter-Mondalc
ticket.
This aspect of the election
results deserves a lot mom
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media have given it. There are
major lessons to be drawn
from the black turnout.
The first of thfcse is that
black votes decide the winner
of any Presidential election
that's not a runaway for one of
the candidates. Nationally,
Carter won by less than two
^million votes; but he gorover
six million black votes.
Even if Carter had lost the
popular vote, black votes
would have swung enough key
Electoral College. The Carter
ticket won because it put
together eastern industrial .
states and an almost solid
block of southern and border
states. In most of them,
victory depended on black
votes.
This is most striking when
you look at the South. The
media stressed Carter's ability
to hold his home region and
attributed?it?to?regional
loyalties. Southerners supposedlv
voted for another
southerner. Carter was hailed
for putting together the old
Democratic Solid South.
But how true is this?
Carter's "Solid South'' wasn't
solid at all. What happened
was that white voters favored
the Ford ticket but black
southerners gave Carter
nearly-all their votes.
The Carter ticket squeaked
through a narrow victory in
Mississippi only because it got
134,000 black votes. In many
southern and border states
Carter's victory margins were
less than overwhelming and
they would have wound up in
the Ford column without that
kind of black support for
Carter. In the capital county of
his home state, Georgia,
Carter barely beat Ford
among white?voters,?but
blacks gave him almost 98
percent of their votes..
Another lesson of the
commitment to the democratic
process is strong. Despite
predictions of light black
voting, black citizens recognized
the importance of using
their political strength to
defeat policies that halted the
civil rights revolution.
The high black turnout is a
tribute to non-political and
non-partisan black institutions
whose efforts to educate
citizens were scr successful.
The black Dress and the
church, along with such
splendid groups as the Joint
Center for Political Studies,
the Voter Education Project,
the NAACP, the" Urban
by Vernon E. Jordan
ck Voter Am
League and others went all out
to get people registered and
concerned.
Thoir ja ttm firr oL
and dis|nt^erest_ j
from traditional foundation
supporters, helped encourage
the pophisiicttiioii of black
voting results. Despite the
overwhelming pro-Carter vote
blacks did not vote as a bloc
for offices below the Presi- '
dency. Split-ticket voting was
comntion whenever Republican <
candidates were seen as being
favorable to black interests. 1
This contains an important '
lesson for the Republican
^arty. Shamefullynhe Par*y
of Lincoln ' has ignored or
fought many of the things
black people are committed to.
Had the Republicans been
^able 4o4iang onto the black
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