Word: alabama
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...Alabama Democratic Conference, the state's black political machine, strongly supported McMillan in the primary. They brought in Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King to speak against Wallace, to remind blacks of what Wallace had been. The majority of blacks (an estimated 65%) went against Wallace. Still, it was the combination of rural blacks and rural whites and blue-collar workers that won for Wallace. That any blacks at all enlisted with Wallace is reason to reflect...
Northerners should watch Wallace with his people. The process is tribal, a rite of communion. Only by watching it can one begin to analyze the disconcerting news that a fairly large number of Alabama blacks have, in 1982, joined the Wallace tribe...
...moving armies unpredictably. George Wallace's gubernatorial campaign this year is exploring a few deeper mysteries of the human character or, at any rate, of the human memory: questions that involve the capacity of the politician's heart to change, the mind to forget and the Alabama black to forgive. The South has profound shallows...
Last week Wallace won the Democratic nomination to become Governor for what would be an unprecedented fourth term (or fifth, if one counts the partial term served by Wallace's wife, the late Governor Lurleen). Wallace, at 63, beat a well-heeled moderate Birmingham suburbanite, George McMillan. Alabama liberals wince at the choice available in November: either George Wallace or the Republicans' pistol-packing law-and-order Reaganite mayor of Montgomery, Emory Folmar. In the weird way that these things happen, Folmar, 52, is playing the part of the old George Wallace in this race, running against...
...poison and paranoia have mostly gone out of the issue of race in Alabama. (Look for them more in South Boston, say, there in a cradle of abolitionism.) The countryside is peaceful now along the route from Selma to Montgomery, through Dallas County and "bloody Lowndes," the old Black Belt over which so many gusts of racial violence have passed. But still one looks across the cotton fields at the tall, deep Alabama forests that are primordially rich and inviting and sinister...