Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Muskegon, Mich...
...would agree that we have not done well enough in developing a North-South economic program. But we have improved the nature of the political relationship with the Third World and the way the Third World perceives...
...first foray into presidential politics in 1964, Wallace proved extraordinarily popular not only in the South but among disaffected whites in the North too. He asked them to "send a message to Washington." He promised to "shake the eye teeth of the . . . pointy-headed bureaucrats." He galloped along shouting "law and order" as a code term for anti-black prejudice, and although he lost the Democrat ic nomination to Lyndon Johnson, he captured 29% to 43% of the vote in the Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin primaries...
...message was perhaps most powerful, that he was tracked down and shot by the deluded Arthur Bremer while delivering a campaign speech in a Maryland parking lot. One of the bullets lodged near his spine, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. He had won Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina and went on to win in the Maryland and Michigan primaries, but his drive for the nomination was halted. So was his career. He tried yet again in 1976, with male nurses carrying him in his wheelchair, but the old enthusiasm had faded. The question of race, which overtly...
...This bill," declared North Carolina's Jesse Helms, "is designed to unionize the South by federal force...