Editing Barry Goldwater (section)

===Results===
[[File:ElectoralCollege1964.svg|thumb|300px|Electoral College results by state]]

Goldwater only won his home state of Arizona and five states in the [[Deep South]]. The Southern states, traditionally Democratic up to that time, voted Republican primarily as a statement of opposition to the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964|Civil Rights Act]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-over-the-once-democratic-south|title=How the 'Party of Lincoln' Won over the Once Democratic South|date=April 10, 2019 |access-date=September 25, 2021|archive-date=October 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002202649/https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-over-the-once-democratic-south|url-status=live}}</ref> which had been signed into law by Johnson earlier that year. Despite Johnson's support for the Civil Rights Act, the bill received split support from Congressional Democrats due to southerner opposition. In contrast, Congressional Republicans overwhelmingly supported the bill, with Goldwater being joined by only 5 other Republican senators in voting against it.<ref name="Bernard Cosman 1966" /><ref name="Charles S Bullock III 2012 p. 303" />

In the end, Goldwater received 38% of the popular vote and carried just six states: Arizona (with 51% of the popular vote) and the core states of the Deep South: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. In carrying Georgia by a margin of 54–45%, Goldwater became the first Republican nominee to win the state.

Goldwater's poor showing pulled down many supporters. Of the 57 Republican Congressmen who endorsed Goldwater before the convention, 20 were defeated for reelection, along with many promising young Republicans. In contrast, Republican Congressman [[John Lindsay]] ([[New York's 17th congressional district|NY-17]]), who refused to endorse Goldwater, was handily re-elected in a district where Democrats held a 10% overall advantage.<ref>"Lindsay Rejects National Ticket; To Run on His Own; He Attacks Positions Taken by G.O.P. Convention in Nominating Goldwater", NYTimes August 4, 1964, https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/04/archives/lindsay-rejegts-national-ticket-to-run-on-his-own-he-attacks.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506074957/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/04/archives/lindsay-rejegts-national-ticket-to-run-on-his-own-he-attacks.html |date=May 6, 2021 }} Retrieved December 7, 2020.</ref> On the other hand, the defeat of so many older politicians created openings for young conservatives to move up the ladder. While the loss of moderate Republicans was temporary—they were back by 1966—Goldwater also permanently pulled many conservative Southerners and whites out of the [[New Deal Coalition]].<ref>Goldberg, ''Barry Goldwater'' pp. 232–237</ref>

According to [[Steve Kornacki]] of ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', "Goldwater broke through and won five [Southern] states—the best showing in the region for a GOP candidate since [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]]. In Mississippi—where [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] had won nearly 100 percent of the vote 28 years earlier—Goldwater claimed a staggering 87 percent."<ref>[[Kornacki, Steve]] (February 3, 2011) [http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/03/reagan_southern_strategy/index.html The "Southern Strategy", fulfilled], ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110413151441/http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/03/reagan_southern_strategy/index.html |date=April 13, 2011 }}</ref> It has frequently been argued that Goldwater's strong performance in Southern states previously regarded as Democratic strongholds foreshadowed a larger shift in electoral trends in the coming decades that would make the South a Republican bastion (an end to the "[[Solid South]]")—first in presidential politics and eventually at the congressional and state levels, as well.<ref>{{cite news |first=Daniel |last=Rodriguez | author1-link = Daniel B. Rodriguez|author2=Weingast, Barry R. |title=How the GOP Helped the Democrats Destroy the Solid South |date=July 2006 |publisher=[[Stanford University]] |url=http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/documents/weingast-untold%20story%20of%201964%20civil%20rights%20act.pdf |access-date =January 7, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716153517/http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/documents/weingast-untold%20story%20of%201964%20civil%20rights%20act.pdf|archive-date=July 16, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Also, Goldwater's uncompromising promotion of freedom was the start of a continuing shift in American politics from liberalism to a [[Fiscal conservatism|conservative economic philosophy]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last= Edwards |first= Lee |title= Goldwater, Barry (1909–1998) |author-link= Lee Edwards |editor-first= Ronald |editor-last= Hamowy |editor-link= Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia= The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC |year= 2008 |publisher= [[SAGE Publishing|Sage]]; [[Cato Institute]] |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |doi= 10.4135/9781412965811.n127 |isbn= 978-1412965804 |oclc= 750831024 |lccn= 2008009151 |pages= 211–212 |quote= [He] opposed Big Government, Big Business, Big Labor, and Big Media. |access-date= December 8, 2016 |archive-date= September 30, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200930100756/https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC%2F |url-status= live }}</ref>