Describe a Henry Wallace '48/George Wallace '68 voter

[Vice President Christian Man]

I already have a few guesses:

1. A socialist who supported segregation/Jim Crow.
2. An otherwise mainstream Democrat who opposed the hawkishness of Truman & Johnson.
3. An otherwise mainstream progressive from Alabama, who supported their native son.
4. A progressive from The South who voted for Wallace in '68 to try to stop Nixon.

[BabyAlligator]

1. A socialist who supported segregation/Jim Crow.

I'm not sure, Henry Wallace was very outspoken about being in favor of expanding african american rights. He and his vp even received tomatoes for that reason when they campaigned in the south.

[Sir Mohamed]

White Southerner just eligible to vote in 1948 and was generally left-leaning on economic policies and vaguely supported civil rights at the time without paying much attention to the issue. He was disgusted by African American riots in the mid/late 60s. Said voter supported escalating the Vietnam War and bring it to a quick end by massive use of force and didn't believe Nixon's "secret peace plan" was serious.

Didn't Wallace and LeMay propose to use nukes in 'Nam? That would make #2 not an option above.

[H. Ross Peron]

A working-class Jewish man in his 20s who resided in the Bronx in the 1940s. Was involved in trade union and Zionist activities during this time and while not an ideological socialist at all, he associated Henry Wallace with FDR and working-class causes something reinforced by the endorsement of the American Labor Party. Over the following 20 years, he prospered and eventually became a small businessman who moved out to Suffolk County in Long Island. He remained committed to Zionism and even labour unions but became more concerned about violent crime and bemoaned the riots of summer 1968. Due to a personal dislike of Nixon, he ended up voting for George Wallace as a protest vote.

[The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney PC CC GOQ]

Interesting responses so far. We're missing the most obvious one, an apolitical person with the last name Wallace who just wanted to share last names with the president

A more serious scenario is a working-class white person who got into socialism at a young age, perhaps during the depression, and saw Wallace as a "step in the right direction". During the 1950s red scare they lost their left wing touch but still remained economically populist/anti-big business. During the Civil Rights movement, race resentment politics had an effect on them. They didn't like Humphrey's/LBJ's focus on civil rights, and didn't trust Nixon who they saw as too business-friendly, but Wallace's mix of economic populism and racism appealed to their sensibilities.

Essentially, this would be the Greatest Generation version of a WWC Sanders-Trump voter.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

A working-class Jewish man in his 20s who resided in the Bronx in the 1940s. Was involved in trade union and Zionist activities during this time and while not an ideological socialist at all, he associated Henry Wallace with FDR and working-class causes something reinforced by the endorsement of the American Labor Party. Over the following 20 years, he prospered and eventually became a small businessman who moved out to Suffolk County in Long Island. He remained committed to Zionism and even labour unions but became more concerned about violent crime and bemoaned the riots of summer 1968. Due to a personal dislike of Nixon, he ended up voting for George Wallace as a protest vote.

Maybe also married a woman from the south, spent some time down there and ended up going native in a sense and absorbing some of the region's political sympathies.

[Would vote for Hillary Clinton over Joe Biden.]

Noam Chomsky.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Noam Chomsky.

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