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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Who will Everett True vote for? (August 28, 1924) (lemmy.world)

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Find True Here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&rows=50&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=date

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The turnout:

What do we head-canon Everett as; a Republican, Democrat, or Progressive?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Things to consider:

The parties were very different than they are today. This was before the Republican Southern Strategy of appealing to racism
In fact, in the election map above, the South was won by the Democratic candidate; the Republican candidate won the North and the election
Condo (the creator of the strip) was born in Illinois and later worked in Ohio

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everett's opinions align well with the Progressives of the early 20th century. Both Republicans and Democrats had progressives amongst themselves at that time, so I bet his vote varied based on the candidates rather than being hardstuck one party.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Man, imagine voting based on policies and not party. Were they crazy or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Started his own party, called it Bald Moose, Roosevelt sued for copyright infringement, Everett ignored it.