Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICA. He had, he said, come to run against Democratic Governor Matthew Welsh "because I want to let the people have an effective way of opposing some of the trends going on in Washington." For Welsh, who is a favorite-son stand-in for President Johnson in Indiana's May 5th presidential primary, Wallace had only kind words. "I have the highest regard for Governor Welsh," he allowed. "He is a fine man." But that feel ing was much less than mutual...
Lame Duck. Before departing for Montgomery that night, Wallace promised to return to Indiana this week. He chortled: "Governor Welsh said a few weeks ago, 'Who's Wallace?' He's not saying that...
...certainly is not. Wallace stands to do even better in Indiana than he did in Wisconsin, where he polled 264,000 against 512,000 for Governor John Reynolds, another Johnson-minded favorite son. One reason is that anti-civil rights feeling runs high in some industrial areas of Indiana. Another is that Welsh, a lame-duck Governor who cannot succeed himself, is suffering a popularity dip because of a state sales tax he signed into law last year...
After the Wisconsin primary, this strategy is bankrupt. Wallace received disturbingly heavy support from Milwaukee's workers; the trade-unionists of Gary will probably behave similarly in the Indiana primary. Furthermore, white suburbanites, both the very rich and those on the lip of Milwaukee's industrial area, gave Wallace many votes. The white revolt has materialized, dashing liberal hopes for a "crisis of conscience" or an interracial alliance of the urban lower classes...
...extent to which the approximately 100,000 votes case by Democrats for Governor Wallace represents opposition to civil rights demands, also will be measured more closely in Indiana and Maryland. If large numbers of northern Democrats continue to vote for the nation's most notorious segregationist, President Johnson could be in more trouble in November than current opinion polls suggest. Wisconsin is only one of several Northern states where Johnson can not afford to lost many once-dependable Democratic votes...