I didn’t attend a DNC convention when I was 6, but remember the election that followed. I remember my Dad being excited about JFK, but seriously less thrilled at LBJ being his running mate. He knew LBJ’s first elected office was the result of the “graveyard vote”.
His only consolation was that VP’s don’t do much.
That sure didn’t work out. I suspect that he voted Republican in the next election because I remember the vitriol from my oldest sister calling Goldwater “Dirtywater”. My Dad, being respectful of people would not return the vitriol.
He carefully weighed candidates in each election thereafter and voted for the one he had most faith in being a patriot. Sometimes D and sometimes R.
He considered himself a Boll Weevil Democrat, which was slang for Southern Conservatives. As more D’a in Texas became R’s he followed suit .
I stopped supporting D’s after High School, when I was taught real history by the schools and more by my father who encouraged me to read and research rather than accept the party and media line.
I didn’t attend a DNC convention when I was 6, but remember the election that followed. I remember my Dad being excited about JFK, but seriously less thrilled at LBJ being his running mate. He knew LBJ’s first elected office was the result of the “graveyard vote”.
His only consolation was that VP’s don’t do much.
That sure didn’t work out. I suspect that he voted Republican in the next election because I remember the vitriol from my oldest sister calling Goldwater “Dirtywater”. My Dad, being respectful of people would not return the vitriol.
He carefully weighed candidates in each election thereafter and voted for the one he had most faith in being a patriot. Sometimes D and sometimes R.
He considered himself a Boll Weevil Democrat, which was slang for Southern Conservatives. As more D’a in Texas became R’s he followed suit .
I stopped supporting D’s after High School, when I was taught real history by the schools and more by my father who encouraged me to read and research rather than accept the party and media line.
His last vote was R, and was proud of it.