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...Cracker Base. The most significant contest by any measure pitted George Wallace against Albert Brewer in Alabama. That Wallace's bluntly racist comeback campaign succeeded in toppling the comparatively moderate, attractive Governor both showed the density of white resentment in the Deep South and broadcast ripples that will be felt in other states...
...past than future (see following story). Kevin Phillips, a theorist and codifier of the Nixon Administration's largely misnamed Southern strategy, believes that "Wallace has become too gross for the Southern middle class. Where before he was a conservative regional candidate, he had to get down to his cracker base to win in his home state...
...Animal Cracker...
...from a world they do not like and feel helpless to change. "What the young in some cases want," say Sociologists Simon and John H. Gagnon in a jointly written paper, "and what appears to adults as unreasonable, is that the prize be located at the top of the Cracker Jack box, not at the bottom." Another attraction, they add, is that drugs can screen out reality and allow the youthful user to withdraw to the private sanctuary of his self...
...takes an effort of mind to recall the time, not so very long ago, when America was still something like a collection of small towns, and a provincial newspaperman named Henry Louis Mencken was its national cracker-barrel atheist. It is, moreover, a matter for wonder that Mencken, who dressed like the gallused boors he despised, chewed cigars like a Tammany clubhouse character and had tastes that ran to beer and bawdy jokes, was ever regarded as the epitome of metropolitan sophistication. The term smart set, which was the title of his first magazine, seems sadly unsmart today. The word...