Describe a George Wallace voter in Cambridge, MA

[Asenath Waite]

Apparently there were 1,140 of them in the 1972 Democratic primary: https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/116331/filter_by_county:Middlesex

[GregTheGreat657]

Freshman college student from the South

[H. Ross Peron]

Probably mostly working class ethnics who lived in the city.

[Podgy the Bear]

Probably mostly working class ethnics who lived in the city.

This is probably the most likely answer.  There were far more of them in Cambridge back in 1972. 

Wallace did quite well in the MA primary in 1976--finishing just out of second place (and ahead of Jimmy Carter) in a contested race.  And he won Boston comfortably that year.

[VPH]

Cambridge had pretty high racial tensions for a time. I'm not sure what exactly drove it, but my guess is spillover from the Boston busing debates. I have some family members who went to high school there at the time and have mentioned racial violence occuring.

[Make America Grumpy Again]

A working-class voter who were fed up with the intellectuals/bureaucrats at Harvard and other area unis. The same voter was also very likely (although not certain) to be against the university-centered counter culture of that era.

[NotSoLucky]

Proba ly one of those urban racist people, like Richard Spencer.