Describe a LBJ 64/Nixon 68/McGovern 72/Carter 76/Reagan 80/Mondale 84 voter

[Sumner 1868]

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["'Oeps!' De blunders van Rick Perry Indicted"]

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Blue-collar Democrat with dovish foreign policy views. Supports Nixon in '68 because he will end the war "with honor" and Reagan in '80 because the economy is so terrible and Carter brought back the draft; may also be an RFK/EMK primary voter lodging a protest. Likely Northern and Roman Catholic and harbors an innate distrust of Southerners.

[Blair]

Pretty much that, Kennedy leaning conservative who liked Mcgovern due to his ties to RFK/JFK and felt let down by Nixon. Then hated Carter in 1980 after Ted lost

[Thunderbird is the word]

 I just spent like thirty minutes typing up a story and then realized I wasn't logged in anymore. Anyway let my try again briefly.

1964-Jack is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan where he was involved in the signing of the Port Huron Statement and went down south for Freedom Summer. He eagerly votes for LBJ out of agreement with civil rights and a generally liberal worldview.

1968: To avoid the draft Jack enrolled at Columbia to attain his Masters in Sociology. He enthusiastically participates in the 60s counter-culture, no marxist however and recently married he decides to return to Michigan in early 68 where he gets a job in Research and Development at Ford. Now making good money, though still staunchly anti-war he decides to vote for Nixon who he perceives as more likely to bring the war to an end.

1972: Now disgusted at Nixon for continuing the war Jack throws himself fully into the McGovern campaign, hosting several fundraisers at his Grosse Point home.

1976: Although suspicious of Carter's southern roots and his moralism (Jack and his wife regularly do Quaaludes and host Key Parties) he despises anybody remotely associated with the Nixon administration and still regrets his vote in 68 so he reluctantly votes for Carter.

1980: Witnessing a decline in business due to rampant inflation, the oil embargo and gas lines Jack decides to again break ranks and vote for Reagan whose movies he has fond memories of from when he was a child.

1984: In the midst of the recession Jack is laid off from Ford. He briefly considers job offers from Toyota and Volkswagon but both would require him to relocate and he also couldn't in good conscience work for either as a Michigan native whose father was a lifelong assembly line employee at Ford. He's also recently divorced and wouldn't want to be too far from his kids. Nearly broke due to allimony payments he moves in briefly with an old friend from college and accepts a job teaching Sociology at the University of Detroit. Witnessing the poverty of the era, and the devastation that Reagenomics has caused he finds himself returning to his radical roots under the influence of his old friend who has never abandoned them and considers taking out a loan to return to school for his PhD. He eagerly votes for Mondale and vows never to vote Republican again.

[Sumner 1868]

Yes, there were surprisingly a lot of deeply anti-Carter Democrats that voted for Ted Kennedy in  the primaries then Reagan in the general election.

[SingingAnalyst]

Sounds like a voter from IA, ND, SD, or OR.