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...image in the country at large. Some say his popularity increases in direct proportion to his distance from New York City. Yet he is still rather remote from the rest of the nation. In most of the South, he would be political poison for the Democrats. Says one Alabamian: "He's a New Yorker. That's like being from Red China." The Detroit News denounced Lindsay as "a political transvestite." Still, in California, which will provide nearly 10% of the delegates to the Democratic convention, a Field poll last May showed that Democrats like Lindsay better than anyone...
...college students who came down to participate in sit-ins, the inexorable stream of Supreme Court decisions, all seem to have been parts of an occupation by outsiders sent down from Washington. (It is amazing that so many Northerners consider Washington to be in the South. To an Alabamian or a Tennessean, Washington is as much a part of the North as New York, both geographically and intellectually.) This has all resulted in a sort of regional persecution complex. Most Southerners feel, with some justification, that they have taken more than their share of blame. Thus many who disagree with...
What he did not have was credentials to practice law. Simmons was really an Alabamian named Daniel Jackson Ol iver Wendell Holmes Morgan, who never went beyond grade school. He had been in and out of jails since his teens and had learned his law not at Howard but in prison libraries, where he researched appeals for himself and other inmates. Described as "the King of the Courtroom Fakers" by Ebony magazine, Morgan practiced for eight years in Chicago, until he was exposed. Sentencing Morgan to prison for contempt of court, the judge quipped that his name alone "was enough...
...months, dissidents of the pro-Wal-lace right and antiwar left threatened to fragment the nation's two-party alignment. The Alabamian, it was feared, would sunder the New Deal coalition of labor, Negroes and ethnic minorities by luring away hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers; disaffected Dem-ocrats-and most Negroes-would sit out the election in disgust or apathy. Richard Nixon predicted confidently that a "silent center" would rise up with an overwhelming mandate for the Republican Party...
...long time Nixon publicly ignored Wallace, reasoning that any notice he gave him would only boost the Alabamian's prestige. Now he attacks Wallace directly, reminding his listeners that Wallace could put Humphrey into the White House by taking potential votes away from the Republicans...