Describe a Kennedy-LBJ-Wallace-McGovern-Carter-Carter-Mondale voter

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Yellow dog Dem with a racist streak and loathing for Humphrey.

[darklordoftech]

Poor white Southern Democrat

[TDAS04]

A couple or so rural Tennessee counties voted that way.

[morgieb]

Culturally conservative/tough on crime Dem, most likely. Bonus points if they're Southern.

[Roll Roons]

White Yellow Dog in the South who was extra pissed at the Johnson administration over Vietnam. He didn't want to vote for HHH, seeing him as a continuation of LBJ's policies, but couldn't bring himself to vote for the Party of Lincoln so he went with Wallace instead.

He probably lives in Arkansas, Kentucky or Tennessee as opposed to somewhere in the Deep South.

[TDAS04]

White Yellow Dog in the South who was extra pissed at the Johnson administration over Vietnam. He didn't want to vote for HHH, seeing him as a continuation of LBJ's policies, but couldn't bring himself to vote for the Party of Lincoln so he went with Wallace instead.

He probably lives in Arkansas, Kentucky or Tennessee as opposed to somewhere in the Deep South.

Agreed, but they didn’t necessarily dislike the Vietnam War.  A regular Yellow Dog could easily have voted this way, in part because many in the South viewed Wallace as the De Facto Democratic candidate anyway.  Or they could vote for a segregationist third candidate, but still not for a Republican four years later, as you said.

[Indy Texas]

Working or middle class white guy in rural Alabama born in the late 1930s.

Cast his first vote for JFK. Voted for LBJ because his family had benefited from the New Deal when he was little and Goldwater's attacks on it rubbed him the wrong way.

Lives in a place that's 99% white. Voted for Wallace because of the favorite son effect and his economically populist positions. Not a racially progressive person but rarely encountered a black person in his day-to-day life so he didn't think too much about integration or bussing.

Voted for McGovern because he was the Democratic nominee and he didn't like what Nixon's agriculture policies did to his family farm.

Voted for Carter because he's a Southerner and a farmer and it'd be nice to have a president who's a regular guy who knows what it's like to work with your hands. Disliked that Ford pardoned that crook Nixon and that he and his wife got all mixed up in that ERA women's lib crap.

Not interested in Reagan. He's an actor from Hollywood, and spends too much time around rich businessmen and around those televangelists that always seemed too slick to be trusted. And the high interest rates finally put his family's farm under for good by 1984, which sealed the deal for him to vote for Walter Mondale, even though he didn't particularly care for the fellow or for the little Yankee lady he picked as his running mate.

Died of a heart attack in 1987.

[If my soul was made of stone]

Working or middle class white guy in rural Alabama born in the late 1930s.

Cast his first vote for JFK. Voted for LBJ because his family had benefited from the New Deal when he was little and Goldwater's attacks on it rubbed him the wrong way.

On the whole this is good analysis, but in the interest of pedantry I must point out that LBJ wasn't on the ballot in Alabama in 1964. Instead, there was a slate of unpledged Democratic electors, which received the most support in the TVA region.

[Torie]

Bipolar.

[Oryxslayer]

Very likely six feet under as of 2021.

[Indy Texas]

Very likely six feet under as of 2021.

My grandmother cast her first vote in 1956 (for Ike) and is still very much with us.

[Vice President Christian Man]

Yellow dog Dem, most likely from the South who was socially conservative but could not bring themselves to vote for anyone from the party of Lincoln.