X. Hot Culture Wars of the Turbulent 60's & 70's Cycle (1961-1981)

X. Hot Culture Wars of the Turbulent 60's & 70's Cycle 

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Major Parties: Democrats, Republicans
Major 3rd Parties: American Independent Party
Presidents: (D) John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson (R) Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford (D) Jimmy Carter
Vice Presidents: (D) Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey (R) Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller (D) Walter Mondale

Dominant Issue: Culture Wars on Social & Domestic Issues
Events: Vietnam, President Kennedy Assassination, MLK

Assassination, Bobby Kennedy Assassination, Nixon Resignation, Carter Malaise, Inflation, First Earth Day, Woodstock, Moon Landing, Bay of Pigs, Roe v. Wade, Cuban Missile Crises, Age of Aquarius, Race Riots, Great Society programs, so-called War of Poverty, Civil Rights Movement, Nixon Walks the Chinese Wall, Stonewall Riots of LGBT, Militant Feminism, Color TV, VHS, Cable TV, Civil Rights Act, Panama Canal Treaty, Forced Busing, Iran Hostage Crises, Occupation of Dominican Republic, NYC Bailout, Student Loan Program

--Democrat Party Factions: Moderate Democrats, Liberal

Johnson

Democrats and Blue Dog Democrats who were still New Deal minded on Econmics yet who morphed out of Wallace's run by blending together Yellow Dog Dixiecrats of the South and Blue Collar Democrats in the North put off by the Liberals move further Left and unpatriotic overtones toward America.

--Republican Party Factions: Old Guard Establishment  Moderate

Nixon and Elvis

Republicans who were the solidifying of the Eisenhower mentality of running the day to day operations of the state and not rocking the boat by too much change and being more socially Moderate -to-Liberal on emerging issues. The Grassroots Conservative Activist Wing as a Conservative backlash to the lurch Left.

Wallace

3rd Parties: American Independent Party of Wallace who opposed desegregation in the South, campaigned in the North about loss of jobs beginning to slip overseas among Blue Collar Workers and an approach to Vietnam of either go all in and win or come home.

End of Cycle: Recession and Malaise over America

1960:
Democrat Convention: Out West in Los Angeles, California

Kennedy

Democrat Ticket: Kennedy/Johnson
President: U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (Massachusetts) Vice President: U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson (Texas)

*Johnson succeeded Kennedy when he was Assassinated
Republican Convention: Across the Midwest in Chicago, Illinois
Republican Ticket: Nixon/Lodge
President: Vice President Richard Nixon (California) Vice President: Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Massachusetts)

1964:
Democrat Convention: Back East in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Goldwater

Democrat Ticket: Johnson/Humphrey
President: President Lyndon Johnson (Texas) Vice President: U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey (Minnesota)
Republican Convention: Out West in San Francisco, California
Republican Ticket: Goldwater/Miller
President: U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater (Arizona) Vice President: U.S. Congressman Bill Miller (New York)

1968:
Republican Convention: Down South in Miami Beach

Nixon

, Florida
Republican Ticket: Nixon.Agnew
President: Former Vice President and Former Presidential Nominee Richard Nixon (California) Vice President: Governor Spiro Agnew (Maryland)

Democrat Convention: Across the Midwest in Chicago, Illinois
Democrat Ticket: Humphrey/Muskie
President: Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Minnesota) Vice President: U.S. Senator Ed Muskie (Maine)

American Independent Party: No Convention.

American Independent Party Ticket: Wallace/LeMay

President: Democrat Governor George Wallace (Alabama) Vice President: Republican Air Force General Curtis LeMay (California)

1972:
Republican Convention:  Down South in Miami Beach, Florida

Ford

Republican Ticket: Nixon/Agnew
President: President Richard Nixon (California) Vice President: Vice President Spiro Agnew (Maryland)

*U.S. Congressman Gerald Ford (Michigan) would be appointed Vice President when Agnew  resigned then succeeded Nixon when he resigned and Ford appointed Vice President Governor Nelson Rockefeller (New York)

Rockefeller

Democrat Convention: Down South in Miami Beach, Florida
Democrat Ticket: McGovern.Eagleton then McGovern/Shcriver
President: U,S, Senator George McGovern (South Dakota) Vice President: U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton (Missouri) who was dropped from the Ticket before the election for mental health problems and replaced by the DNC with Former Head of the Peace Corps Sargent Shriver (Massachusetts)

1976:

Democrat Convention:  Back East in New York City, New York

Carter

Democrat Ticket: Carter/Mondale
President: Governor Jimmy Carter (Georgia) Vice President: U.S. Senator Walter Mondale (Minnesota)

Republican Convention: Down South in Kansas City, Missouri
Republican Ticket: Ford/Dole
President: President Gerald Ford (Michigan)  Vice President: U.S. Senator Bob Dole (Kansas)

Hotly Contested Election of Cycle:

1968:

In the above County Map (R) Nixon is in Blue (D) Humphrey in Red and (AI) Wallace in Green.

In this major 3 way race the Dixiecrats rallied in the South around

Wallace

Wallace who also appealed to Blue Collar Democrats in the North who were pit off by the growing anti_American rhetoric of the Left and the beginning of urban decay as jobs began to slip overseas. This would give rise to the Blue Dog Democrats.

Meanwhile Nixon focused on Law & Order as riots gripped the country. He could afford to sit back and watch Democrats rip apart in the North over Vietnam and in the South over race.

Humphrey

Humphrey was forced to play defense against Wallace in the South and walk a fine line in other regions over Vietnam---both under attack from the anti-War Left in his own Democratic Party and remaining loyal to Johnson who escalated the War. He primarily tried to rally urban voters over continued support for Johnson's Great Society programs.

-A Note of Interest--

Democrat George Wallace turned against segregation in the 70's and

campaigned against it. He went on to receive an honorary degree from the black college of Tuskegee University to a standing ovation from the black attendees. He stated before he died "I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation, and I was wrong. The media has rehabilitated Johnson, why won't it rehabilitate me?"