Maddox drew two-thirds of the white vote in his first mayoral race

Evidence

But as closer analysis showed, Maddox demonstrated significant support in middle-class and even upper-class areas as well. According to the calculations of historian Numan Bartley, he took in two-thirds of the vote from “middle-income whites,” over half of the vote from “semi-affluent whites,” and, most surprisingly, a full quarter of the “affluent white” vote that represented the core of the Hartsfield coalition. “I wish I were wrong,” a friend informed the mayor, “but I am afraid I am not. Pickrick got a majority of the white vote.” — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 449

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Maddox fused racism with individual-rights ideology throughout his career — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 444; White backlash against the Civil Rights Act delivered the South to the Republican Party — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 519