Describe a Landon 1936 - McGovern 1972 voter

[darklordoftech]

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[CadetCashBoi]

Isolationist and/or liberal Republican.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

There were actually some counties that voted that way:

Only 6 such counties exist:

Middlesex MA
Norfolk MA
Washtenaw MI
Jackson, IL
Deuel, SD

Landon won Shannon County, SD, (modern day Oglala Lakota County) which McGovern also won.  However, Shannon County was much smaller back then.

What's interesting is that despite both candidates winning a lot of counties in South Dakota, very few were the same counties.

[Don't Tread on Me]

An intellectual

[Brother Jonathan]

It's possible that they were a black voter. Granted by 1936 most black voters (at least in the urban north) had moved into the New Deal Coalition after being solidly Republican after the Civil War, but I'm sure there were isolated communities that made the transition only later.

[Atlasia GM Liminal]

I met a TCT mod dev who would've voted for Landon and McGovern

[Badger]

A democratic-leaning voter from Kansas who had particular affection for Landon, or more likely a republican leaning voter from South Dakota who particularly like to McGovern and the opposition to the war.

[President Johnson]

New England liberal, who was an ancestral Republican and left his party around 1964, with the rise of Goldwater conservatism.

[Sir Mohamed]

It's possible that they were a black voter. Granted by 1936 most black voters (at least in the urban north) had moved into the New Deal Coalition after being solidly Republican after the Civil War, but I'm sure there were isolated communities that made the transition only later.

Yup, that was my first thought as well. African Americans didn't become so strongly Dem until 1964.  If I'm not mistaken, Nixon still got around 40% of the black vote in 1960. Four years later, there was a dramatic shift with Johnson taking 95% of the black vote (for obvious reasons).