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In reaction, Southern whites left the Democratic party in droves--voting Republican only at the national level in the '50s, then starting to enter the party as local campaign workers and straight-ticket voters with the Nixon election of 1960. Goldwater carried all five "Deep South" states landslide margine in...
The difficulty lies in the two drastic sea changes the word liberal has undergone. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it meant laissez-faire. One of the Commentary contributors, William F. Buckley, quotes Woodrow Wilson as saying that the history of liberalism is the history of man's...
But then on Thursday morning on May 27, 1976, Bolles received a phone call from a tipster who claimed to have information about a fraudulent land deal. The deal supposedly involved very heavy people in Arizona politics--Sen. Barry Goldwater, Rep. Sam Steiger, and state GOP chairman Harry Rosenzweig. Bolles...
In 1964 Barry Gold water became the first Republican ever to sweep the Deep South?but in so doing, he helped paint the Southern G.O.P. into a far corner of conservative, segregationist reaction. Figuring that Republicans could not win much of the black vote as a bloc, Goldwater said: "We...
Never Honest. Conlan maintained a narrow lead until the closing weeks of the campaign, when the religious issue backfired. The seemingly anti-Semitic tone of his campaign angered Senator Barry Goldwater, the most highly respected figure in Arizona politics. He endorsed Steiger, who had already won the support of Senator...