I lived in So CA, San Diego to be exact, but I couldn’t vote for Governor Reagan until he ran for his second term in ‘70, given that the voting age was still 21, “way back then.”
My parents both voted for Reagan, just like you.
It seemed that almost everyone was thrilled to get rid of G. Edmund Brown or was it Edmund G. Brown? I remember he went by the name of “Pat.”
I didn’t know you lived in TX after Northern CA.
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Well I said that I became a Republican for Reagan, but it really was because I was appalled at Johnson’s meddling with schools and everything else. Reagan just sealed it! LOL.
My husband and I were both attached to UC Berkeley as students in 1963. Kennedy addressed the student body and the faculty for Charter Day the year my husband graduated. “Pat” Brown introduced him. I was SO embarrassed because of Pat Brown’s florid and over-the-top introduction. I thought that Kennedy most likely thought he was an idiot!
Of course Kennedy was assassinated later that year, and Johnson started his various “wars” on the social and economic fabric of the country. It didn’t take long to decide that the Republican Party was the better choice and Ronald Reagan was the best of the bunch.
We moved to TX in 1973. In the mean time, the state of CA was nearly in bankruptcy. My husband had been working for UC’s Lawrence Radiation lab, and we were very close to being paid by “script”. Reagan introduced mandatory State Income tax deductions and raised the tax slightly. Prior to that, you figured and paid your State taxes sort of on the honor system. We left the state in August, so we had already paid some of our tax. To my amazement, when we filed our taxes, the following year, Reagan’s tax bureau REFUNDED the overpayment.
I was gobsmacked and have always credited Reagan for that small favor.