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‘Different from the Other Southerners’: Jimmy Carter’s Relationship with Black America

‘Different from the Other Southerners’: Jimmy Carter’s Relationship with Black America

ATLANTA — Without Black voters, there would have been no President Jimmy Carter. In 1976, African Americans catapulted the underdog Democrat to the White House with 83 percent support. Four years later, they stuck by him, delivering nearly identical numbers even as many white voters abandoned him in favor of his victorious …

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