Word: dixiecratism
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...could have run four more miles," puffed Dixiecrat Rebpublican Strom Thurmond, 70, as he finished well back in the pack celebrating National Jogging Day with a two-mile race around the Ellipse in Washington. Old Strom's belief in physical fitness is a Senate byword predating even his 1970 marriage to his second wife Nancy, 26. Rising at 5:30 a.m., the South Carolina Senator jogs about three miles, then does fifteen minutes of calisthenics and follows up during the day with a turn or two with the barbells. Sometimes his colleagues are directly affected by his vigor: Thurmond...
...ghost of Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution who led a futile rebellion against the propertied founding fathers when they sought to replace the confederation of states with a central government empowered to collect taxes. Shays, says Vidal with obvious approval, sounding a little like a Dixiecrat, "did not want London to be replaced by New York." Still the Property Party, as Vidal calls those who rule the U.S., has also produced remarkable exceptions like Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of one of the finest pieces Vidal has ever written. He turns what is ostensibly a book review...
...Vice President (Lew Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore of the Senate, prompting the Capitol's most prominent Dixiecrat (Burgess Meredith) to snort "the White House doesn't seem near white enough for me tonight...
Those University of Hartford students who sat through Thurmond's speech were probably a little awed by the transformation of their cafeteria. When they heard a dixiecrat proclaim that "Next to John C. Calhoun, Agnew's the best Vice-President the country's ever had" in their eastern college eating-place, it must have been discomforting. When a crowd of student-conservatives greeted the announcement with a standing ovation and drawled YAAAHOOOS, it was unquestionably sobering...
Wallace's 13% was impressive in one sense: it was more than twice the combined totals won by Progressive Henry Wallace and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond in 1948 and was the largest third-party turnout since Robert La Follette garnered nearly 17% in 1924. (Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party ran second with 27.4% in 1912.) However, outside the Deep South his showing shrank dramatically below his standing in the polls through the late summer and early fall. He failed to prove his contention that the "rednecks" he bragged about were sufficiently numerous or widely enough distributed to people...