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...stalling, his top aides had finally worked out a civil rights compromise with Congress -- and none too soon. Bush hardly relished the prospect of vetoing a civil rights bill in the same fortnight that the Senate nearly disintegrated over the Clarence Thomas nomination and an ex-Klansman named David Duke became the Republican Party candidate in Louisiana's gubernatorial runoff...
Strychnine or arsenic, Louisiana? Pick your poison. That's about the only way to look at the state's gubernatorial race, which took on a noxious taint last week when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke began battling roguish ex-Governor Edwin Edwards for the keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher...
...race from hell," as Maginnis calls it, is opening old wounds of race and class in a possible preview of next year's ugly national politics. Duke, 41, is tapping into working-class frustrations about welfare and affirmative action, violent crime and failing schools, lost jobs and a stagnant economy that resonate broadly throughout the country. His rise is anathema to the national Republican leadership, which strongly repudiates him but now finds many of its most effective themes tainted by the ex-Klansman's use of them. In the 1992 presidential campaign, George Bush may find it dangerous to blast...
...abandonment of cities by the federal government, the news media's obsession with Black drug crime and white suburbanites tolerance of drug violence in Black areas, and the creation of code-words for segregationism that allow David Duke to sound like George Bush with populist bite--all these amount to social codifications of ignorance of and unconcern for the Black underclass...
...Duke scholar is currently at work on a book on George Sand and is the editor of the journal Differences...