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Barry Goldwater wasn't a segregationist. For God's sake, he co-founded the Arizona NAACP, and played a major role in desegregating the Arizona Guard.
He voted for the previous Civil Rights Act, and then against the 1964 Voting Rights Act, in defiance of his Senate Leader, because he genuinely believed that it was a wrongful extension of federal power over private properties, an ideal that he clung to tenaciously throughout his career. I don't agree with him, but it's just stupid to say that he was a segregationist for it.
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