Word: backlashers
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...called "switchblade issue," first introduced at the convention when Dwight Eisenhower voiced his concern over crime in the cities. It was an issue that obviously touched nerve ends among the delegates. It makes sense as a national issue only if considered in conjunction with the "white backlash." Goldwater seized on it, warning of "the growing menace" to life and property in America's big cities and demanding governmental action...
...large number of them--most have been Republicans all their lives--will support President Johnson against the challenge of a philosophy they find alien to their progressive brand of Republicanism. They are outwardly offended by Goldwater's apparent appeal to the "white backlash" vote and to the extremist groups of the far right...
Here in the town where the party was founded and from which the Society took its name, it said in a statement that a Goldwater candidacy "must invariably exploit the white backlash to the civil rights movement...
...front-running candidate for our presidential nomination has embarrassed our party by announcing that people who are poor have only their stupidity or their laziness to blame. This is a slander on the thousands of good Americans who through no fault of their own have been caught in the backlash of our urbanized, industrialized, fast-moving society. There is a need for the party of Lincoln to remember that 'there but for the grace of God go I.' But heaven help us if we go before the American people with the naive belief that every poverty-stricken family...
...Wallace [May 29] were the most precise I have seen. Instead of appealing to the intelligence of the voters (the logical way to combat stupidity), Brewster relied solely on a name-calling campaign until it was too late. Surely the Maryland primary will not cause concern about the "Northern backlash...