Word: backlasher
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...MFDP is not seated, Johnson probably will not feel the effects of a Negro backlash at the polls in November, since Goldwater's nomination did not leave them with much choice in the election. But Robert Moses, head of the Mississippi Summer Project, indicated privately last week two possible consequences of Presidential opposition to the MFDP...
...summer of 1964, a nagging concern pushed its way to the surface. Its touchstone was the Negro revolution, punctuated by the angry Negro riots that erupted last month in Harlem and Rochester, and one of its side effects was a phenomenon that had come to be called the "white backlash." There were other vague feelings of frustration, notably about U.S. participation in the faraway war in Viet...
...observe a broad curtailment, if not total moratorium, of all mass marches, mass picketing and mass demonstrations until after Election Day, next Nov. 3." The reason was plain enough: the leaders figured that by calling a halt to Negro militancy, they might stop the growth of the white backlash vote for Barry Goldwater in November. The Negroes' energy, they said, should be aimed at getting voters to register. Lyndon Johnson lost no time joining their cause, backed a policy of "registration in lieu of demonstration...
...outside the big power centers, such as New York and Pennsylvania. Barry is still flying high on the cloud of post-convention momentum that buoys any newly anointed candidate. Lyndon Johnson has not yet begun to fight. And beyond this, Barry is riding on a wave of white backlash against the summer's civil rights violence that could rise or diminish between now and November. With all these areas of doubt, the political news last week was that so many people in so many places were talking about the possibility of a Goldwater victory...
...against "civil rights" is obviously an extremist. Goldwater, of course, hopes to win in the Democratic South not because he is against "civil rights" but because he is for "states' rights." Moreover, he figures to get votes outside the South because of the so-called "white backlash"-an unfortunate phrase that implies that anyone who does not go all the way with the Negro revolution, including its excesses and extremism, is some sort of Simon Legree with a whip in his hand...