Archie Bunker Democrats

There aren't any.

Archie Bunker was a Republican.  From way back.  He was a racist and he hated the hippies.  But his bigotry went far beyond that.  He hated Catholics.  He hated Jews.  He hated Italians, the Irish, Poles---it was hard to say which he disliked more about his son-in-law, Mike's lefty politics or the fact that he'd given Gloria the last name of Stivic---Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, the Japanese, the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, and if he knew any Eskimos and Sikhs. He hated Democrats.  He hated the New Deal.  He hated "Roozevelt" and hated Eleanor more.  He hated his own Union.  He hated everybody who was the least bit like himself but wasn't also White, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant.  His politics and prejudices were exactly those of the country club set who would have despised him if they gave any thought to his existence because they would have seen no difference between him and most of the rabble he despised and did his best to keep down on their behalf.

Just saying.

Comments

[Bill Altreuter]

I always had Archie pegged as a Nixon guy, but Wallace was probably who he voted for. I doubt that he was actually registered to any political party-- Republicans would have seemed too hoity-toity, and as you point out, he'd have wanted no truck with the Democrats. Was he bitter? Hell, yeah-- that was the joke.

[Lance]

Bill,

Whoever he voted for in '68, by the time the show was on the air, he was proudly Nixon:

"Let me tell you one thing about Richard E. Nixon. He knows keep his wife, Pat, home. Roosevelt could never do that with Eleanor. She was always out on the loose. Runnin' around with the coloreds. Tell'in them they was getting the short end of the stick. She was the one that discovered the coloreds in this country, we never knew they was there."

[myiq2xu]

The Archie Bunker of the first season of "All in the Family" was not the same person we saw when "Archie Bunker's Place" ended the tale.

Archie grew and changed, as did our nation.