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...precisely because of "these people," said Johnson, that many Republicans are going to vote Democratic. "It is not backlash," he said. "That is gone. It is not frontlash. It is the smearlash. Because when people get desperate they get dangerous, and when they get dangerous they are not cautious. And when they get to fearing and doubting and smearing-why, even some of their own people don't want to go along with them...
Professor Pettigrew has made some recent remarks which illustrate another circumstance that might distort the predictions. In denying that a "white backlash" had sprung up recently, Pettigrew pointed out that an abnormally large number of voters had turned out in Northern primaries where Governor Wallace was a candidate. Wallace's support, he suggested, had not come from a sudden change of heart on the part of people who voted regularly, but as a result of what he called the "out from under the rocks effect"--people who had always disliked Negroes now had a chance to express their dislike with...
...good deal different from that of 1964. At first, several significant issues seemed likely to emerge in this year's campaign. There was civil rights, for example, but its real importance was quickly lost in an emotionally charged fog about "law and order" and "white backlash." There was the nuclear-control issue, but Lyndon Johnson has let it die by refusing to answer Goldwater's questions about it. There is Viet Nam, but it takes two to debate, and Lyndon just hasn't been in a debating mood...
...first election serves as a control for the second. An anti-Negro candidate, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, won both elections, the second time by a much larger percentage than the first while a Negro candidate; Melvin King, lost both of the contests. This vote was widely called a white "backlash," though the "rocks" phenomenon was probably working...
Goldwater strategists see the Midwest as the crucial battleground in this fall's election, but one Midwestern state no one expects the Senator to carry is Michigan. There is usually a Democratic majority there and considerable evidence of strong frontlash this year, especially n the suburbs outside Detroit. White backlash is apparently not as strong in Michigan as in some large industrial states; in a key primary, seven-term Congressman John Lesinski, the only northern Democrat to vote against the civil rights bill, was beaten by his more liberal colleague John Dingell. Lesinski's defeat shows that hard work, particularly...