The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Page: 77
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again points up both the popularity of these individual
Congressmen and the willingness of Alabama voters to elect
Republicans. =
In 1969, the Republicans elected their first member to
the state House of Representatives since Reconstruction.
On April 1, 19&9 Bert Nettles was elected to the House as
the representative from Mobile County. Nettles received
55.1 per cent of the votes cast in a four-way race,-^ which
was also contested by a political unknown, a Negro, and a
white supremacist. In the 1970 race for the House of Repre-
sentatives, Nettles was returned to Montgomery as the sole
Republican in Alabama's state legislature.
The 1968 election saw George C. Wallace sweep Alabama,
collecting over 67 per cent of the total popular vote.-'
Even though he won the election overwhelmingly, Wallace
failed to prevent the re-election of the three Republican
Congressmen; he also failed to receive great majorities in
the black belt, where Strom Thurmond had collected nearly
every vote cast in 19^8. Thus, the influence of the black
vote is shown in the black belt in the 1968 election. Wal-
lace gained 52 per cent of the vote in the black belt
^Mobile County Probate Court, Official Election Returns,
1969.
^Secretary of State of Alabama, Official Alabama
Election Returns, 1968.
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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/m1/84/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .