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...through 1994, Jack Kemp traveled the country helping local Republican candidates while collecting chits for his own presidential bid, which he planned to make in 1996. In late October he was in Birmingham, Alabama. The overflow crowd had come to hear the most publicly irrepressible and optimistic G.O.P. politician since Teddy Roosevelt, and for a time, Kemp delivered as promised. His old football stories were laced with lessons: "I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100." His tales recalled the Gipper's golden age: "The world changed because Ronald Reagan...
...election, he was one of only 27 Senators to vote against the Civil Rights Act. At that year's G.O.P. Convention, the civil rights plank was voted out of the platform. The South noticed. In addition to his home state of Arizona, Goldwater carried just four others: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina...
...third-party presidential bid of Alabama Governor George Wallace that year awoke the G.O.P. to a powerful new theme: conservative populism. From the time of William Jennings Bryan, the Democrats had been the defenders of the little folks against the power of money that had its natural home in the Republican Party. Wallace proposed instead a world in which waitresses and factory workers were oppressed by ivy-educated policy wonks and limousine liberals, an elite who crafted busing plans while their own kids went to private schools. Between them, Nixon and Wallace took 57% of the vote...
...unified voice, for there are corporation types advocating business tax cuts sitting next to small business spokespeople urging payroll tax elimination. Minimum wage detractors live next to work-study students. Young people for and against protectionism come together from across the country, from Alabama to Vermont. The depth and breadth of ideas reflect the wide array of interests that older Republicans cherish. If the future of the party rests in its youth, then the 21st century will bring much of the same diversity of ideology that challenges Big Tent Republicanism...
When TWA Flight 800's passenger list was finally released, the grief it itemized was distributed evenly, with two exceptions: Stevenson, Alabama, which lost five citizens; and Montoursville. The French club sent 16 kids, ranging in age from 14 to 18, to fly to Paris, along with five adult chaperones. Since then, America has seen a hundred snapshots of the town's grief: a boy in a turned-back baseball cap ducks his head in silent contemplation; a woman comforts a girl in front of a sign exhorting students to have a safe summer. A boy who played sports with...