LBJ's Revenge

That's the title of the new article I just coauthored with Tom Schaller of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Here's the abstract:

Four decades ago, at the height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, Congress passed and the president signed landmark legislation to ensure voting rights, liberalize and expand immigration, and make higher education more accessible. In 2008, a coalition of minorities and upscale whites formed a coalition to elect Barack Obama to the White House. Although many of the Great Society goals remain elusive, the new Democratic majority assembled by Obama represents the emergence of a Great Society electoral coalition.

And here's a teaser. Remember those maps (like the one below) that showed the counties where McCain ran better than Bush?

Here's the reason why. Take a look at the map below which shows counties where native southern whites make up more than 65 percent of the population.

Comments

[yesivoteddem]

oh my

im a LBJ guy.

I applied and eventually went to UT law school becayse I read Caro's first bio of him.

The very worse part of this campaign - and probably what started the win for Obama - was the awful moment when Team Obama was joined by Ted Kennedy (and his media allies) in denigrating Hillarys comment about the relationship between LBJ and MLK and in effect, dishonoring LBJ to the extreme..

It was awful. The only one who was there abd still is around now , John Lewis, said that Hillary was entirely right about the role of LBJ, but the news media NEVER quoted him on this anywhere .(trust me I googled and nexus'd that quote all that week - it was reported no where).

This was also used to say that Hillary and Bill were denegrating the historic role of MLK.
That led directly to the series of - the Clintons are racists and/or using racism bunch of BS.

So please, no mention of LBJ electing Obama for a while...please.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

LBJ's revenge?

Don't overlook Halliburton.

Google
LBJ Brown and Root

[ProudLiberalDan]

Interesting.

LBJ couldn't provide both "guns and butter".

It is essential to end the Iraq War.

Universal health care is the unfinished business of the New Deal and Great Society. There is no fixing our economy without overhauling health care.

God bless Obama and Congress if they make it so.