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Just like DPB101 who provides is with these great posts even though he is younger, I am fifty six my parents were born in 1903, and 1904, and they were also anti-communist Democrats.

We are from Texas, and in the fifties there was not much of a Republican party after you got past Tower, and Bush 41 didn’t come along until later, so I'm pretty sure they voted democrat in congressional, and state elections during the fifties. They did vote Republican in presidential elections from Ike on. They liked Truman, but thought Stevenson was weak, and figured out the Kennedys because they knew about old man Joe. It had nothing to do with their being Catholics. Everybody in Texas knew LBJ was a crook, McGovern didn’t even rate a comment and they called Carter Peanut.

The fact of the matter is The Democratic party in Texas was pretty conservative in those days, and they had a stranglehold on Texas because of The Depression, and people didn't think about the damage FDR was doing, and the fact that it was WWII that got us out of things. FDR got the credit. The Dems were just about the only game in town.