Challenge: Describe a Dukakis 88/Bush 92 voter

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

Greek.

Nikolas Stephonapolis, 1921-1996: A Greek-American veteran of World War II was the owner of Nik's Diner in Wooster, MA. A lifelong Republican he voted for Michael Dukukis who visited his diner while campaigning on several occasions for governor and voted for him out of ethnic pride in 88, the only time in his life he voted for a Democrat for President.

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

There are people changing beliefs/party loyalties all the time. I think most of these voters would fit in that group.

I would imagine a 1968 Wallace/1972 McGovern voter would be much more of a challenge.

Maybe some yellow dog Democrats in the South who were willing to bolt the national party (after all, Wallace was still a Democrat...) but just couldn't bring themselves to vote Republican?

Admittedly, there wouldn't be too many...given how badly McGovern lost the South.

Maybe some guy who grew up in a southern family and voted for Wallace, before going to Vietnam, returning and becoming an anti-war hippie as a result.

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

Those Alabama counties were in all likelihood not the result of voters changing their choice but new black voters who had not yet gotten used to being able to vote.

This was 33 years after the Voting Rights Act. Junk explanation.

You mean 3 years, and I don't think it's outside the realm of explanation that it might have taken some time for a lot of black voters to all get registered. There still could have been hidden informal suppression efforts going on the local level that went unreported at first. After all, in general it was the same white southerners still running voter registration.

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

A Rural, Mid-Western Farmer that had been effected by the Farm Crisis.

Iowa was a state where Dukakis '88, did better than Clinton '92.

Perot probably got the bulk of those votes though.

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

What I think is interesting in the other direction is a Ford 76/Carter 80 voter. I know of someone who voted for Ford because they were scarred that Carter was a theocrat but then voted for Carter because they were terrified of Reagan. I bet that for more people it was the other way around and probably a lot of the baby boomer evangelicals were Carter 76/Reagen 80.

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

George McGovern was a Ford '76/Carter '80 voter.

Did he admit it? Wouldn't surprise me that there would be bad blood between them.

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

Oh wow, he did

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