Describe a Hoover-Landon-Willki-Dewey-Truman voter

[Pres Mike]

Describe a life long republican that voted for Harry Truman in 1948

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

populist working class Republican that thought FDR was a phony rich kid but Truman was genuinely a man of the people. This kind of describes my grandmother who is a lifelong Republican (and New England Yankee) who grew up dirt poor in Vermont and has described Truman as her favorite president.

[sting in the rafters]

Almost certainly Black given Truman's emphasis on Civil Rights and desegregating the military

[Sumner 1868]

Lives in Independence, Missouri.

[Republican Party Stalwart]

populist working class Republican that thought FDR was a phony rich kid but Truman was genuinely a man of the people. This kind of describes my grandmother who is a lifelong Republican (and New England Yankee) who grew up dirt poor in Vermont and has described Truman as her favorite president.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I would seriously love to meet your grandmother; she sounds very cool.

[Vice President Christian Man]

Wealthy and educated Republican from Middlesex County MA who saw FDR as a borderline Socialist but supported Truman's handling of foreign policy.

[Republican Party Stalwart]

Wealthy and educated Republican from Middlesex County MA who saw FDR as a borderline Socialist but supported Truman's handling of foreign policy.

Yes, people often forget how many genuine converts Truman actually won over in 1948 due to both foreign policy and/or economic policy.

[Republican Party Stalwart]

Almost certainly Black given Truman's emphasis on Civil Rights and desegregating the military

I don't think that there were enough Black voters in Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio for Truman to have been able to flip all of those states that voted for Dewey in 1944.

[sting in the rafters]

Almost certainly Black given Truman's emphasis on Civil Rights and desegregating the military

I don't think that there were enough Black voters in Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio for Truman to have been able to flip all of those states that voted for Dewey in 1944.

FDR carried all those states by double digits in 1936, eliminating many Mountainers and German isolationists from this hypothetical. In contrast while 1936 brought the first mass defection of African-Americans to the Democratic Party behind ministers preaching"let Jesus lead you and Roosevelt feed you",Black voters remained split in party ID before finally becoming Democrats in 1948 as Truman endorsed a Civil Rights plank to win Northern swing states

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

populist working class Republican that thought FDR was a phony rich kid but Truman was genuinely a man of the people. This kind of describes my grandmother who is a lifelong Republican (and New England Yankee) who grew up dirt poor in Vermont and has described Truman as her favorite president.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I would seriously love to meet your grandmother; she sounds very cool.

Not at all! She is, 93 years old and still sharp as a tack.