progressive85
Junior Chimp
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« on: June 22, 2022, 09:54:15 PM » |
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I think it goes by generation. Despite all the focus on young hippies and the youth of the counterculture, most young people in the early 70s were probably moderate, and many were conservative.
Young voters strongly favored Ronald Reagan in the 1980s over the very weak Democratic candidates (this generation remains favorable to the Republicans to this day).
In 1972, you could have had a young, northern liberal Republican voting for Nixon and in the same election a young, southern conservative Democrat that voted for Nixon as well... and they might have both voted for Carter in 1976...
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