Race and Religion as Factors in the Kennedy Victory in Detroit, 1960

For presidential elections the center of political gravity seems to have shifted once and for all to the urban areas, particularly those giant industrial centers with a population in excess of a million inhabitants. Presidential hopefuls must capture these centers if they expect to have any chance of occupying the White House in the following year. Certainly the 1960 presidential election gave testimony to the importance of the vote of such cities as Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Detroit, among others. The popular vote in these cities held the key to control of the Electoral College. Without their vote Kennedy would not be in the White House today

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