Jimmy Carter, President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, died this Sunday, December 29, 2024. America unanimously paid tribute to him, rediscovering a man long shunned then praised for his commitment to human rights. Farmer, representative of the white and conservative South, Jimmy Carter showed a profile that apparently radically contrasted with the current sociology of the Democratic Party executives and their candidates. Was he an old-fashioned democrat?
« I am a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor and a Christian », Declared Jimmy Carter 50 years ago, on December 12, 1974, during his candidacy speech for the 1976 American presidential election. The former President of the United States, born in Plains, Georgia in 1924, claimed by- there his heritage as the son of peanut farmers, fervent believers, and settled in America since the 1630s.
Thanks to this image of traditional America, Jimmy Carter benefited from vast popular support at the time of his election in 1976. ” He managed to collect a large part of the vote of the “Rednecks”that is to say poor whites, where in 2024 it is Donald Trump who concentrates the majority of their vote “, according to Romuald Sciora, director of the United States Political and Geostrategic Observatory at IRIS.
