I think that my husband and I both voted for Kennedy. I remember my father and I sitting at the kitchen table and arguing politics. He couldn't believe I was for Kennedy. I had watched the last two democratic conventions and became a Kennedy "fan" because of that. My husband and I were 20 and were getting married that December.
It was when I first heard Reagan give his Goldwater speech that I realized that I was a conservative. My parents were conservative even though "everyone" in Alabama back then had to be a Democrat. Elections were decided in the primaries.