Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALLACE LEADING: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Total electoral votes...
Four Democratic incumbents-Herman Talmadge of Georgia, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, North Carolina's Sam Ervin and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina-Seem virtually assured of reelection. Democrat James Allen, a conservative Southerner, is a cinch to win the seat of Alabama's retiring Lister Hill. Five Republicans-Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, New York's Jacob Javits, Utah's Wallace Bennett and Vermont's George Aiken-are likewise rated as shoo...
...seemed a characteristic remark--an absurd refusal to concede that the very people that he is continually attacking don't really hate him. Marshall Frady, in his new biography of Wallace, describes Wallace's pathetic efforts to convince Alabama Negroes to support him, or at least to convince himself that they did: at one ponit, Wallace is quoted as telling a group of Negro educators, just before the 1966 campaign for governor, "Now I get out speakin' to folks, don't pay any attention to what I say, 'cause I'm gonna have to fuss...
...single campaign speech includes some spurious statistics intended to show that Alabama's blacks were all for Lurleen. The insistence that no one can really be against him is at first rather touching, but it has an ominous quality to it: it is the small extension of Johnsonian consensus, the point where social unity becomes fascism...
Wallace is very accessible on his plane, holding press conferences while sitting sideways on an airplane seat and pausing between sentences to suck on an orange in which he had nibbled a small hole, or just wandering around chatting like it was Clayton, Alabama, and he was still running for State Representative...