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...most stunning conservative victories last month was that of Lester Maddox last week in the runoff for the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Maddox's victory over ex-governor Ellis Arnall was caused partly by the SNCC-inspired Atlanta riots and Arnall's reluctance to campaign between the primary and the runoff. But it also confirmed suspicions resulting from the results of the 1964 Presidential election in Georgia. To the astonishment of most Democratic strategists, Goldwater captured Georgia's electoral votes. And the victory of Maddox, the red-neck who closed his restaurant rather than submit to the public accommodations provisions...
...Maddox ran a campaign geared to the racists and the "small man" disenchanted by federal spending in time of inflation. He was able to combine strong support from these overlapping blocs -- and Republicans voting in the Democratic primary--to defeat the wealthy Arnall, who had been an outstanding state executive in the 1940s, but seemed to have lost touch with the mood of the Peach State electorate in the intervening 20 years. Arnall proclaimed his allegiance to the "national Democratic party," a group that more than ever stands for sin, spending, and federal interference in the eyes of most rural...
Morrison's defeat was no major surprise and many political analysts feel that the cross-over of registered Republicans to vote in the Democratic race was decisive in Maddox's upset victory...
...Jimmy Carter, 41, a moderate in the Arnall mold, who had so meager a pre-primary following that people habitually referred to him as "Jimmy Who?" As it turned out, the Arnall-Carter brand of rational race relations pulled a total of 365,000 votes, 25,000 more than Maddox and two other ardent white supremacists could raise between them...
Arnall is an odds-on favorite to trounce Maddox in next week's runoff. In the November election, he will run head-on into a powerhouse Republican candidate, Representative Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, who is also a millionaire. A states'-righter who was elected on the tails of Barry Goldwater's 1964 Georgia victory, Callaway is given at least an even chance of defeating Arnall, to become Georgia's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction...