I cannot recall either
Johnson in 1964 or Humphrey in 1968 campaigning on any positive or exciting ideas that might excite the almost-poor workers, whose votes they took for granted ... In contrast, George Wallace has been sounding like
William Jennings Bryan as he attacked concentrated wealth in his speeches ...
From 1960 to 1968 liberal Democrats governed the country. But nothing basic got done to make life decisively better for the white workingman. When he bitched about street crime, he was called a
Goldwaterite by liberals who felt secure in the suburbs behind high fences and expensive locks. When he complained about his daughter being bused, he was called a racist by liberals who could afford to send their own children to private schools. Meanwhile, the
liberal elite repeated their little
Polish jokes at
Yale and on the
Vineyard; and they cheered when
Eugene McCarthy reminded them that the educated people voted for him and the uneducated people voted for Robert Kennedy.
Liberal hypocrisy created a lot of Wallace votes in 1968.