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...costly, losing war in South Viet Nam. At home, he might be expected to profit from the civil rights issue. It will almost surely win him electoral votes in the South. In pre-campaign figuring, it was generally assumed that he would also gain in the North from the "backlash" of white resentment against excesses of the Negro revolution. But if there were any such backlash, it would have shown itself last week in a Democratic primary in Michigan's 16th Congressional District (sec story on Page 23), and it failed to materialize...
...Goldwater has never counted on the backlash, or sought to take advantage of it. Rather, he has so far found his most effective domestic issue to be that of national morality. He made a big point of it in his Prescott, Ariz., kickoff speech last week. He argues for national leadership that will end lawlessness and violence on the U.S.'s city streets not merely by force but by example...
...months, Democrats and Republicans alike have waited warily to hear the first crack of the white "backlash" vote against the excesses of the Negro revolution. And if such a vote were ever to make its sting felt in U.S. politics, it seemed certain to do so in last week's Democratic primary in Michigan's newly created 16th District...
...district, bordered by Negro neighborhoods and beset by fears of black incursions, the backlash, so everybody thought, was an "obvious" issue. Dingell accused Lesinski's followers of "trying to use it. They're raising the bogeyman, telling people that if I'm elected there will be two Negro families on every block in Dearborn." Lesinski indeed raised some bogeymen. "The other day," he cried in a typical speech, "a 35-year-old man was set upon and stabbed by four colored fellows. He was stabbed to death. It didn't appear...
...that state. There are soft spots throughout the South and the Rocky Mountains, but beyond that, the polls leave little more than Nebraska, South Dakota and Ohio in doubt. And while most show Lyndon losing one out of every ten Democratic voters because of the civil rights "backlash," they also show him picking up three out of every ten Republicans because of what he loves to call the anti-Goldwater "frontlash...