Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indiana (63): 55 should go to H.H.H., 8 to McCarthy...
...Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature with mankind or beast shall be deemed guilty of sodomy." In such indirect language, an Indiana statute makes oral or anal intercourse a crime. Even if he knew about the law, Charles Cotner of Jasper County, Ind., could hardly believe that it covered married couples in the privacy of their bedrooms...
...distance of a convention victory; Kennedy's death put him even closer. In his eleven-week campaign, R.F.K. had amassed more than 300 convention-delegate votes, including the 172 he won in California last Tuesday. Much of Kennedy's delegate legacy will inevitably fall to Humphrey. In Indiana, for example, the New Yorker's May 7 primary victory had assured him of at least 53 of the state's 63 convention votes. After Kennedy's death, Indiana party leaders declared that the slate would go uncommitted to Chicago, but in fact Governor Roger Branigin...
...Kennedy assured such blocs he would represent them, he also tried to give them a sense that their own participation, wholly apart from his own future, would in time yield results. The upshot of his pitch was a multiple victory: alienated blacks and poor whites voted en masse in Indiana and California, clinched Kennedy wins, and got a brief feeling that their votes actually meant something...
Perhaps this helps to explain the curious coalition Kennedy forged in Indiana--poor blacks and lower-income, frustrated whites who otherwise might have leaned to Governor Wallace. Herein lies the sad paradox of Kennedy's truncated campaign: the most bitterly opposed Presidential aspirant was somehow able to unite briefly America's two most mutually explosive groups...