Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major figure has exploited the issue more assiduously or effectively than Alabama's George Wallace, who has made startling headway among U.S. voters as a result. Though Richard Nixon airily skirted the issue last week when he was asked to comment on the confrontation between police and protesters during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, he, too, is regarded by millions of voters as a strong law-and-order man who, as President, would "do something" about rising crime rates, unsafe streets, noisy demonstrators and restless blacks. Hubert Humphrey is desperately attempting to straddle the issue, though in the text...
United Front. Even for an inveterate optimist like the Vice President, that seemed an unduly rosy view. The nation's increasingly conservative mood seems to be working against him. His own strategists figure that Nixon and Alabama's George Wallace will roll up 55% to 60% of the total vote between them. They also estimate that Humphrey will have to win 80% of the nation's Negro and Jewish votes, though recent New York polls give him only 60% of those groups in that pivotal area, with 20% still undecided...
...been preoccupied with civil rights. As an eighth-generation Southerner, he feels an obligation toward Negroes, and he wants to be proud of his home region. After many years of traveling, he now lives where he was born, in Hartselle, a town of 8,000 in north central Alabama. "There is a decency about people here," he says. He was happy with the racial progress that was being made in Alabama until George Wallace became Governor. "I suppose the reason I keep involved is that I resent Wallace's effort to turn back the clock...
Moreover, the convention produced some welcome reforms. The venerable unit rule, often used to smother dissent in party affairs, was summarily scrapped. A standing measure to encourage minority representation at future conventions was strengthened. Rebels challenging the regular delegations from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi got full or partial satisfaction. Said one disgruntled Georgian: "The white conservative vote in the South is not wanted by the present party leaders...
...dominant issue was what the del egates called "the white problem." As they see it, the U.S. has no "black problem"-racial trouble is entirely a matter of white racism. An emotional ar gument was touched off by charges that the all-white University of Alabama delegation was unrepresentative and, in hopeless parliamentary confusion, a Negro Alabama student was seated, unseated, then reseated. Other wholly white delegations caught the spirit and issued challenges to their own credentials. Demonstrators, pretending to be a chain gang, beat themselves with belts and chanted: "Oh, it hurts so good, I don't want...