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...clearly throughout the week. For the first time since Labor Day, the Democratic candidate was scoring points with the voters, as he crisscrossed the country and hit hard at Ford at every stop. In his attacks, Carter was so aggressive that it was possible he would provoke a sympathetic backlash for Ford?if the allegations about him were shown to be untrue or grossly overblown. But for the moment, the President gave the Democrats plenty to criticize...
...Bigotry Backlash. Carter seemed to be benefiting from a growing backlash against the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' efforts to make abortion a major campaign issue. The bishops' stress on the subject and their apparent preference for Ford's position had met with serious objection within the church. The National Federation of Priests' Councils urged "a more balanced image" on the issues, and the National Coalition of American Nuns announced it intended to endorse Carter...
...least the beginning of the end for "yellow-dog democracy," in which, or so it was said, Southerners would vote for a yellow dog if it were nominated by the Democratic Party. By the late 1950s, efforts by Democratic Southern Governors attracting Northern industries caused something of a political backlash. Recalls South Carolina's Fritz Rollings of his term (1959-63) as Governor: "After four years I had filled up the state with industry. Then I looked around and they were all Republicans. When you bring in GE and Westinghouse, you get the jobs, but then you see that politics...
...finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most of the citizens of South Boston hold the high school close to their hearts, Kifner says, because it was there that most of them spent the best years of their lives...
...finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most of the citizens of South Boston hold the high school close to their hearts, Kifner says, because it was there that most of them spent the best years of their lives...