Word: border
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Building his hopes on the South and the Border States, Nixon is concerned that George Wallace might win a great many conservative votes that might otherwise go Republican. But for the long run, Nixon tends to discount Wallace's appeal. By November 5, say hopeful Nixon thinkers, Wallace's strength will have dwindled from the 16% the polls currently give him (in a three-way race with Nixon and Hubert Humphrey) to no-more than 4% to 5%, the "hardcore" racists. "The rest," says one man at Mission Bay, "are people who are just upset at things...
...Confederacy and the Border States nominated the Republican ticket, and will shape its campaign. The winds from Dixie make Hubert Humphrey the Democratic pacesetter and will similarly trim his sails into November. Thus, to the naked eye, the South appears to have risen again. A closer look does not quite bear out the more sweeping assumptions about Southern power, but Dixie has indisputably earned the attention it gets...
...must view it as a collection of diverse states with diverse interests. In this sense, the South has come of age politically. There are real rewards for the party that deals delicately with this constituency. The eleven states of the Old Confederacy contain 128 electoral votes and five Border States add 42, for a total...
...administration was progressive, his stand on civil rights was positively liberal in a Border State that still retains many vestiges of segregation. At his urging, a 306-year-old antimiscegenation law was repealed, the state public-accommodations law was broadened, and the first state open-housing law south of the Mason-Dixon Line was enacted. Negroes were appointed to some high offices and, for the first time, to the Governor's personal staff...
...advancing with big strides." They admitted that not the Red Guards but "the workers, peasants and soldiers were the main force" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in proletarian education. Worst of all, "Red Guards in many places expressed their determination to go to the rural areas, border areas, factories, mines and basic units in order to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants." That, in the current lexicon of China, is the Maoist version of exile to Siberia...