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They know what's good for them in terms of party politics too. At the appropriate time, both Helms and Thurmond turned from Democrats to Republicans, and although it may come back to haunt Helms (the GOP is on the decline in North Carolina), the metamorphosis has served both well...
Each one was a central figure during the Nixon years--Thurmond as the architect of Nixon's Southern Strategy and Helms as the leader of the rightwing charge needed to create the reactionary climate Nixon wanted.
What is really at stake for Thurmond and Helms--and Massachusett's Ed King for that matter--is the preservation of their charade. Their future, and the future of the right-wing boom as a whole, depends on the knack of these politicians for plugging into the money and power...
Jesse Helms is a different political creature, newer to the game and more like the Thurmond of 30 years in the vitriol of his rhetoric. But the charade is similar. Like Thurmond, he identifies himself as a "champion of the little people" while amassing an enormous campaign warchest, much of...
Not surprisingly, the kinds of issues Helms stresses bear no relation to the concrete problems of the constituency he courts: problems like North Carolina's wage scale, the lowest in the country.