Word: buchananism
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PROGRESSIVE WHITE Southerners are scared by Buchanan's campaigning success. Two Democrats and a Republican--former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer, Georgia Governor Zell Miller and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell-blasted the Challenger's campaign tactics on Sunday morning television. And it's no accident that the Journal and Constitution article covering the Buchanan campaign ended with an excerpt from a conversation between the candidate and Robin Jackson, the president of the Houston county NAACP...
...equal rights, my friend' said Mr. Buchanan, who then recounted a story about how as a teenager he defended a black high school athlete...
Even white Southerners who don't seem so progressive are a little uncomfortable. Take, for example, Durwood McAlister, former editor of the editorial pages of the Atlanta "Covers Dixie Like the Dew" Journal, He wrote in a column entitled, "Buchanan's Style is Ugly...
...Buchanan Jacks the key ingredient that was the saving grace of the rogues we remember fondly. He is without charm...
...COURSE, I don't present McAlister's reasoning as a resounding rejection of Buchanan's candidacy. But the other protests--and my mother's concerns--have a lot of validity...