Word: backlasher
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...same token, it is regrettable that commentators felt it necessary to label every conservative candidate who won a "right-winger," a "segregationist" or a profiteer from "white backlash." Newsmen cannot grasp the fact that we are not all liberals with Socialistic tendencies like themselves, but just plain conservatives who still believe in people doing for themselves...
...backlash, said Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young, "did not materialize as much as many people had anticipated. American citizens, when the chips are down, prefer to vote their intelligence and good sense rather than their prejudices." In many races, in fact, there was something of a Negro "frontlash." Winthrop Rockefeller became the first Republican to win Arkansas' governorship by capturing 80% of the Negro vote?which turned out to be his margin of victory. South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings' 10,000-vote margin for a U.S. Senate seat came mostly from Negro votes. In Maryland, Republican Agnew beat...
Rare Coalition. Neither of the issues that many observers considered pivotal ?the "white backlash" and Viet Nam ?had a profound effect on voting patterns. Of 25 Congressmen threatened by the backlash, according to a Congressional Quarterly survey, 17 emerged as winners, including Ohio's Republican William McCulloch, who played a major role in getting the 1964 Civil Rights Bill through the House...
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, where Conservative Claude Kirk Jr. became the first Republican Governor in more than 90 years by borrowing George Mahoney's slogan, "Your Home Is Your Castle," backlash is hardly a suitable term; the racism was always there, needed no Negro demonstration to stir...
...Scheer a lot of free television coverage. Suddenly cameraman -- even from William Knowland's conservative Oakland Tribune -- were following him everywhere. "Some of my Ramparts friends told me to cool the 'Black Power' stuff if I wanted to win, but I insisted there really wasn't any white backlash in the District...