Describe a George Wallace/Bernie Sanders voter
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« on: October 01, 2015, 03:22:47 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2015, 03:24:37 PM »

An old, rural, white economics professor who couldn't care less about social issues but strongly identifies as on the far-left economically.
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« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2015, 03:42:19 PM »

A nonagenarian yellow-dog Democrat who doesn't approve of a woman running for President.
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« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2015, 03:45:06 PM »

I think I came up with a good one:

A very conservative voter who, like a lot of other old Southerners, strongly identifies as a Democrat even though the party has drifted to the left. The voter has very traditional, conservative views, so has decided not to support Clinton for being a woman and not to support Biden for being the Vice President of an African-American. The only other viable Democratic option left is Sanders, so that's who he chooses to support.
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« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2015, 03:56:19 PM »

Maybe also a retired autoworker from the Midwest who holds populist economic views on most issues but voted for Wallace out of a fear of affirmative action above all else.
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« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2015, 04:21:03 PM »

A racist, protectionist old man from Mississippi who was homeless for two years thanks to being fired by Donald Trump. He also doesn't care about the label of socialism.
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« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2015, 06:50:01 PM »

I think I came up with a good one:

A very conservative voter who, like a lot of other old Southerners, strongly identifies as a Democrat even though the party has drifted to the left. The voter has very traditional, conservative views, so has decided not to support Clinton for being a woman and not to support Biden for being the Vice President of an African-American. The only other viable Democratic option left is Sanders, so that's who he chooses to support.

Why not Webb?
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« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2015, 07:24:18 AM »

A southern liberal who resided in one of those Southern states that Nixon won, or in Arkansas, which Wallace barely won.  Such a voter may have voted for Wallace to stop Nixon and throw the election into the House of Representatives, where HHH may have had a chance. 
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« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2015, 01:53:14 PM »

A southern liberal who resided in one of those Southern states that Nixon won, or in Arkansas, which Wallace barely won.  Such a voter may have voted for Wallace to stop Nixon and throw the election into the House of Representatives, where HHH may have had a chance. 

That's an interesting twist.

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« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2015, 07:25:56 PM »

A left-wing populist, most likely a blue-collar union worker or ex-"Reagan Democrat".
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« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2015, 07:37:35 PM »

An economic populist whose economic views are more important than social issues or foreign policy. Someone who voted for George Wallace in 1968, and is now supporting Bernie Sanders, likely also voted George McGovern in 1972, Ross Perot in 1992 and, depending on their age, were probably loyal to southern populist Democrats like Harry Truman (1948) and Lyndon Johnson (1964). At the same time, I can see this type of voter also liking much of what Donald Trump says.
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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2016, 05:01:09 PM »

Raised in a hell fire and brimstone home, taught to fear Blacks, gays, Communists and foreigners, cast his (or less likely her) first vote for Wallace in '68. Somewhere between 1969 and 2015 began to open his mind. It's not all that farfetched.
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« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2016, 11:28:35 PM »

An Alabama Democrat
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« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2016, 06:56:20 PM »

   Perhaps my late step-father, had he voted.  The Wallace themes of racial insecurity, disdain for elites resonated with him, but so too would Bernies opposition to wealth inequality, and Bernies likelihood to be the least pro-war of all current major candidates.
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« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2016, 07:17:17 PM »

Rust belt union worker who was against busing/affirmative action, but left-wing economically.
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« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2016, 03:46:41 PM »
« Edited: February 19, 2016, 04:15:26 PM by P123 »

A blue collar union member, who voted for Wallace do to opposition to the 70s counter culture (or affirmative action), and liked Wallaces economic populism and law and order stance.

This voter would like alot of things Donald Trump says as well.

Remember, Wallaces base of support was Southerners and blue collar union members from the North. Humphrey and the Democrats were seriously worried that Wallace would steal massive amounts of those types of voters in the North (for example, the AFL-CIO actively campaigned against Wallace).
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« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2016, 04:26:37 PM »

A blue collar with strong populist views, who supported Wallace not so much due to racial issues as economic ones. Now he joined a white blue-collar Sanders crowd.
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« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2016, 04:55:04 PM »

Oklahoma 2016
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