Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject of Taimadge's wavyhaired opponent, candidate Carmichael, she said simply, "Bow ties aren't generally worn in the South...
...Gene" had wangled himself back into the governorship by winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary was no puzzle to Georgians-even though his principal opponent, James V. Carmichael, had polled 314,421 popular votes to Gene's 305,777. The "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" had just exploited Georgia's county unit system of counting votes...
Under the unit system, Fulton County (where Carmichael beat Talmadge by 23,836) got six electoral votes for its 92,500 voters. Echols County got two for its 619 voters. Thus, one Echols vote had the electoral power of 150 Fulton votes in last week's election. Not one of Georgia's 159 counties is so humble as to have less than two electoral votes...
With that kind of setup, it was no particular trick for Ole Gene. Unworried by popular majorities, he bypassed the cities where Carmichael appealed to the voters (including Georgia's 650,000 adult Negroes belatedly enfranchised this year). He just concentrated on the farmers. Gene had always had the farmers right by their pet prejudices. Once more, he snapped his red galluses at them, borrowed chaws of cut plug from crowds, ranted about the Negro menace, the labor menace, the new carpetbaggers-and promised little but a return to normalcy, Georgia style...
...majority increased with every fresh report. A few thousand men, 12,000 by four in the afternoon, 18,000 by nightfall. Plainly, the people of Georgia wanted James Carmichael as their next governor, to replace Ellis Arnall who by law could not succeed himself. One hundred thousand Negroes, voting in a Democratic primary for the first time in their lives, were solidly behind him. The kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers...