Describe a white Humphrey voter in Alabama or Mississippi, 1968

[TDAS04]

Go.

[Non-consecutive Two Term Floridian]

Atticus Finch

[Podgy the Bear]

Atticus Finch

Probably not.  Did you read Go Set a Watchman? 

[patzer]

Someone who’s such a staunch party loyalist they wouldn’t vote for anyone other than the Dem nominee ever

[CadetCashBoi]

Unionized TVA employee

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

A union member working at a steel mill. Voting Democratic was what every good union member did back in the 60s.

[Don't Tread on Me]

1. Someone who worked in academia
2. A Jew (A lot of anti-Semites supported Wallace and this could've turned them off)
3. A transplant

[Non-consecutive Two Term Floridian]

Atticus Finch

Probably not.  Did you read Go Set a Watchman?  

We don't talk about that rough draft here. But fr Harper Lee probably voted for HHH.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Atticus Finch

Probably not.  Did you read Go Set a Watchman?  

We don't talk about that rough draft here. But fr Harper Lee probably voted for HHH.

I haven't read Go Set a Watchman and I'm not going to, but from the summary I did read, I find it a bit unbelievable that Atticus Finch would join the Citizens Council, unless he for some reason had become more racist in between the 1930s and the 1950s, which would have been pretty unusual considering how race relations developed during that period, and much more so for him personally in view of the social ostracism he had experienced for his actions in the first novel. Such an evolution in character is least for me, a possibility too depressing to contemplate.

I know many people will try to explain this by saying that in To Kill a Mockingbid, Atticus is viewed through child Scout's eyes, while in Go Set a Watchman, he's viewed through the eyes of adult Scout, to which I say, no, it doesn't work like that, the gap in behavior is too wide for that to be the explanation: if he had really been racist, there would have been SOME HINT of that in the first novel, and I believe Harper Lee was too good an author to have not allowed there to be evidence for readers to find.

To compare to another very well known example *COUGH COUGH* it's POSSIBLE for Dumbledore to be gay even though it's never mentioned or hinted at in any of the books, because Harry and his friends would have no reason to know or even ask about their headmaster's sexuality. By contrast, racism being much more public, and publicly accepted and even encouraged in 1930s Alabama, if Atticus Finch had been racist, he would have said something racist in public at some point, especially when, to repeat, a White Man expressing racist ideas in that society at that time would have won approval, even if that wasn't his goal.

[Non-consecutive Two Term Floridian]

Atticus Finch

Probably not.  Did you read Go Set a Watchman?  

We don't talk about that rough draft here. But fr Harper Lee probably voted for HHH.

I haven't read Go Set a Watchman and I'm not going to, but from the summary I did read, I find it a bit unbelievable that Atticus Finch would join the Citizens Council, unless he for some reason had become more racist in between the 1930s and the 1950s, which would have been pretty unusual considering how race relations developed during that period, and much more so for him personally in view of the social ostracism he had experienced for his actions in the first novel. Such an evolution in character is least for me, a possibility too depressing to contemplate.

I know many people will try to explain this by saying that in To Kill a Mockingbid, Atticus is viewed through child Scout's eyes, while in Go Set a Watchman, he's viewed through the eyes of adult Scout, to which I say, no, it doesn't work like that, the gap in behavior is too wide for that to be the explanation: if he had really been racist, there would have been SOME HINT of that in the first novel, and I believe Harper Lee was too good an author to have not allowed there to be evidence for readers to find.

To compare to another very well known example *COUGH COUGH* it's POSSIBLE for Dumbledore to be gay even though it's never mentioned or hinted at in any of the books, because Harry and his friends would have no reason to know or even ask about their headmaster's sexuality. By contrast, racism being much more public, and publicly accepted and even encouraged in 1930s Alabama, if Atticus Finch had been racist, he would have said something racist in public at some point, especially when, to repeat, a White Man expressing racist ideas in that society at that time would have won approval, even if that wasn't his goal.

100%. It's clear Harper Lee had two different scenarios in her mind, and that what we got in To Kill a Mockingbird was the one she went with. Go Set a Watchman should never have been published as a book, but instead as a look inside what she was thinking of going with before finalizing Mockingbird. There are so many inconsistencies that it doesn't make sense as a follow-up.

[Del Tachi]

My grandfather

[SpartanburgSam]

White liberal pro civil rights college student who is against the Vietnam war.

[NotSoLucky]

Someone like Trae Crowder maybe.

[Sir Mohamed]

A college student?

[President Johnson]

Governor Albert Brewer