Southern Nixon vs. Wallace voters

[Del Tachi]

Wallace voters tended to be poor. Actual KKK members probably voted for Wallace. Nixon appealed to wealthy Goldwater voters who, even if segregationist, didn’t care for Confederate flags or Robert E. Lee statues. Nixon voters never again voted Democratic while some Wallace voters voted for Carter. In fact, Wallace himself endorsed Carter, as did Eastland.

Southern Senator is an expert on this.

A proportion of Wallace voters probably voted for Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton and Gore.

Nixon voters if suburban and wealthy/middle class stayed loyally republican, however if more rural and in unionist areas some of them switched over for Clinton, Carter and even Gore.

I agree about both the Nixon and Wallace voters generally. I would say that an overwhelming majority of Wallace 1968 Southern voters still alive enthusiastically backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, whereas most surviving Nixon 1968 Southern voters probably backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.

I seriously doubt this.  C'mon, you're talking about Southern, (mostly retired) college-educated White suburbanites in their 70s and 80s?  I think they'd be Trump voters.

[Del Tachi]

Wallace voters tended to be poor. Actual KKK members probably voted for Wallace. Nixon appealed to wealthy Goldwater voters who, even if segregationist, didn’t care for Confederate flags or Robert E. Lee statues. Nixon voters never again voted Democratic while some Wallace voters voted for Carter. In fact, Wallace himself endorsed Carter, as did Eastland.

Southern Senator is an expert on this.

A proportion of Wallace voters probably voted for Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton and Gore.

Nixon voters if suburban and wealthy/middle class stayed loyally republican, however if more rural and in unionist areas some of them switched over for Clinton, Carter and even Gore.

I agree about both the Nixon and Wallace voters generally. I would say that an overwhelming majority of Wallace 1968 Southern voters still alive enthusiastically backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, whereas most surviving Nixon 1968 Southern voters probably backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.

I seriously doubt this.  C'mon, you're talking about Southern, (mostly retired) college-educated White suburbanites in their 70s and 80s?  I think they'd be Trump voters.

Yeah ... wut?  How is this even a question?!

I also think people slightly underestimate the number of White voters Humphrey got throughout the South.  I mean, it wasn't high, as Wallace scooped up most of the "working class" and rural White vote, with Nixon cleaning up in the suburbs and more traditionally conservative areas, but I don't think Humphrey got zero, either.

My great-grandparents in northeastern Mississippi were White, non-college educated Johnson 1964/Humphrey 1968 voters

[Del Tachi]

Wallace voters tended to be poor. Actual KKK members probably voted for Wallace. Nixon appealed to wealthy Goldwater voters who, even if segregationist, didn’t care for Confederate flags or Robert E. Lee statues. Nixon voters never again voted Democratic while some Wallace voters voted for Carter. In fact, Wallace himself endorsed Carter, as did Eastland.

Southern Senator is an expert on this.

A proportion of Wallace voters probably voted for Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton and Gore.

Nixon voters if suburban and wealthy/middle class stayed loyally republican, however if more rural and in unionist areas some of them switched over for Clinton, Carter and even Gore.

I agree about both the Nixon and Wallace voters generally. I would say that an overwhelming majority of Wallace 1968 Southern voters still alive enthusiastically backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, whereas most surviving Nixon 1968 Southern voters probably backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.

I seriously doubt this.  C'mon, you're talking about Southern, (mostly retired) college-educated White suburbanites in their 70s and 80s?  I think they'd be Trump voters.

Yeah ... wut?  How is this even a question?!

I also think people slightly underestimate the number of White voters Humphrey got throughout the South.  I mean, it wasn't high, as Wallace scooped up most of the "working class" and rural White vote, with Nixon cleaning up in the suburbs and more traditionally conservative areas, but I don't think Humphrey got zero, either.

My great-grandparents in northeastern Mississippi were White, non-college educated Johnson 1964/Humphrey 1968 voters

Did they always vote democrat?

They definitely were from the 1940s-1950s, unsure how they voted in 1960.  They were Nixon/Carter/Carter, Dukakis, and Clinton/Dole voters too.  Unsure of their votes in 1984.