Word: dixiecrats
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...both Johnson and Collins had reckoned without South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948 and now the longest-winded, strongest-muscled of all the U.S. Senate's Democratic segregationists. In Collins' confirmation hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, Thurmond needled his fellow Southern Democrat mercilessly, intimated that he was a traitor to his own section of the country. Collins flushed and retorted: "Senator Thurmond," he said, "I love the South, and I am sure you must have sensed that. Don't you challenge my deep feelings about the South...
...keeping out of the fight, limiting himself to frequent phone calls to Mansfield or Hubert Humphrey, floor manager for the pro-rights coalition. "When he's most needed," says a Johnson aide, "he'll get into it." Humphrey, a veteran civil rights battler who sparked the 1948 Dixiecrat walkout at the Demo cratic National Convention by inspiring the insertion of a strong rights plank, will be backed up by three strongly liberal deputies: Washington's Warren Magnuson, whose Commerce Committee late last year approved a separate public accommodations bill that is slightly stronger than the version passed...
Long is no Dixiecrat demagogue, even though he once introduced a bill to provide federal funds for "a one-way ticket to Africa for anyone who feels he would prefer any of the African nations to the U.S." Last session he filibustered with Northern liberals against developing communications satellites through private enterprise-as well as with Southern Democrats against the literacy test bill. More than most members of the U.S. Senate, Long frequently seems to concentrate on peripheral issues, such as World War II G.I. insurance or the protection of Government-developed patents...
...dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Wearing two sets of underwear (he insisted they were "Confederate suits," not union suits) beneath his clothes to guard against the Yankee-like cold snap, Wallace threatened a Dixiecrat rebellion. Said he: "We intend to carry our fight for freedom across this nation, wielding the balance of power we know we possess in the Southland . . . We, not the insipid bloc voters of some sections, will determine in the next election who shall sit in the White House of these United States...
...have been encouraged by the victory of Bruce Alger in the Dallas Congressional elections and by the impressive triumph of John Tower. But Tower's may be the last great state-wide victory the right-wing will enjoy. Conservatives will continue to be strong in Dallas and in the Dixiecrat belts of East Texas but they may soon find themselves victmis of an exploded myth. They will discover that they in no sense dominate the political scene in Texas and without a striking change in direction cannot hope...