The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Page: 66
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appreciable numbers in Alabama, the voters in the black
belt tended to be, as a group, from the higher socioeconomic
levels. At the time of Key's study, there was no large lower-
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SES group voting in the black belt counties. It seems to
follow naturally that, once Negroes began to vote in large
numbers, they would select candidates who were more progres-
sive on issues of race and economics than would the white
voters of the black belt. Since Negroes constitute half or
nearly half of the potential vote in each of the black belt
counties, their influx into the electorate was bound to have
extraordinary consequences on traditional voting patterns.
Exceptions to Sectionalism
This paper does not intend to suggest that sectional
divisions occur in each race for statewide office in Alabama. •
It is, rather, the contention of this work that when section-
alism does occur Key suggested that this happened in times
* 2R
of crisis the sectional divisions are different from
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those in operation when Southern Politics was written.
An example of an election in which sectionalism did not occur
is the 1968 senatorial primary, won by Jim Allen. When the
2^Ibid., p. bk.
^Ibid. > p. ^6.
^Key, op. cit.
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Smith, Dale Cheryl. The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, thesis, May 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131520/m1/73/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .