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

[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.

[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.