1964 United States presidential election

Lyndon Johnson won 61.1 percent of the popular vote and 486 electoral votes, carrying 44 states and the District of Columbia. On its face it was a Democratic landslide, and it led to Medicare, Medicaid and the War on Poverty. The map tells a second story. Barry Goldwater, who had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, won only his native Arizona and five states of the Deep South: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. States long loyal to the Democrats had broken for a Republican who opposed the civil rights bill, and the party's conservative wing found the message it would carry for decades. Both parties' later coalitions are already visible in this one result.