Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five lesser candidates in the May 5 Democratic primary may force a runoff. This would deprive the feisty little ex-Governor of the big win he needs in order to retain his national clout. But nobody is counting George out yet. Much depends on whether Wallace still evokes the Populist yearnings of traditionalist Alabama. Says State Senator C.C. Torbert: "If they vote with their minds, it will be Brewer; if they vote from their hearts, it will be Wallace...
...Negro South was coming to discount for the most part American democratic idealism and white liberal ideology because there was so little evidence of either's working." Linking this similar feeling among both blacks and poor whites. Watters sees some hope for an old dream-the kind of populist alliance Tom Watson-and later Huev Long-tried to forge. He is not so naive as to see this as a possibility in the near future but only when the hypnotic power of racism is broken...
...appreciation of humanity over economics. In suggesting that the South will change only if the rest of America changes first. Watters has made a realistic assessment of the magnitude of the job ahead. Unfortunately, he can offer no new strategy. Rejecting revolution, he advocates a kind of neo-populist new polities, with leaders such as Julian Bond as one possible alternative. As a Southern liberal who since 1963 has worked for the Southern Regional Council, for years the South's only voice against racism, Pat Watters is used to waiting and fighting against insurmountable odds. The rest...
Carmichael reviewed a number of abortive black-white coalitions-from the Southern Populist movement of the 1890's to the attempted alliance between the Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party-and concluded that the blacks suffered each time...
...interpreted the American past as an economic struggle between haves and havenots. Since most revisionists took part in the civil rights or antiwar movements of the past decade, they make an easy transition to a study of previous periods of intense struggle: the Revolution, the Civil War, the Populist revolt, the efforts of labor to gain recognition. Compared with the America summarized in contemporary textbooks, theirs is indeed another country...