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...political winds that have been whirling through the South took on pattern and direction last week. The pattern led to two conclusions which seemed to be, but were not, contradictory: 1) there will be no organized bolt of the party by Southern Democratic leaders, 2) Dwight Eisenhower has a better chance to carry Southern states than any Republican candidate since Herbert Hoover...
...question before the Southerners was whether to lie down gracefully beneath the steamroller or get out of the way with another Southern bolt-either now or in November...
Left wingers did not seem to care whether the Southerners stayed with the party or not. In fact, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther had laid down the line in a letter to the resolutions committee. Wrote he: "We do not believe the South will bolt, but if it so chooses, let this happen. Let the realignment of the parties proceed...
...horse was a hunch. He's trallin' the bunch. And then from seventh like a bolt from the blue, he's passed the others, they're lettin' him through...
Substitute for Shift. The Democratic leaders relied (correctly, as it turned out) on the inability of the Southerners to do the normal thing and shift parties. But after the failure of the Dixiecrat bolt at the 1948 convention, opposition to Truman and the FEPC grew in the South. As 1952 approached, Southern leaders resolved to stop Truman and FEPC inside the party-or to bolt it and throw the victory to the Republicans, which is the South's substitute for a normal shift of votes across party lines...