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To: FlingWingFlyer

The 18 year old vote came out of the 60s, so did the lowering of the drinking age, the laws were changed in the early 70s.


9 posted on 09/06/2014 10:58:30 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

This is true. It used to be 21. I was not able to vote until age 21.


66 posted on 09/07/2014 9:27:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ansel12

>>The 18 year old vote came out of the 60s, so did the lowering of the drinking age, the laws were changed in the early 70s.

Half right. Drinking age was raised in the ‘70s due to the Mad Moms. Many states had an 18 drinking age.


67 posted on 09/07/2014 9:38:10 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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