“Goldwater was, in other words, a candidate for voters in Boston as much as those in Birmingham – catering to white voters who were against the idea of federal civil rights legislation but at the same time desperate to receive assurances that this didn’t make them bad people.”

“Goldwater was, in other words, a candidate for voters in Boston as much as those in Birmingham – catering to white voters who were against the idea of federal civil rights legislation but at the same time desperate to receive assurances that this didn’t make them bad people.”

— Rick Perlstein