Word: racial
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Traumatic Aftermath. Then, in 1957, came a great blow to Arkansas' backwater mentality. Dwight Eisenhower ordered U.S. paratroopers into Little Rock to resolve an unnecessary and uncharacteristic racial crisis over school integration. Overnight the ugly montage of shrieking segregationists, terrified Negro schoolchildren, and the dyspeptic protestations of Governor Orval Faubus became Arkansas' image to the world. The psychological effect was traumatic. Having previously prided themselves on relatively good race relations, many Arkansans were deeply repelled by the picture that they presented in the unhappy aftermath of Little Rock. It took nearly a decade to germinate, but the seed...
...terms of job opportunities, political advancement, housing and other important sectors the state's Negroes are obviously behind those in the North, they are still better off than those in most other Southern states. This was true even before the Little Rock eruption in 1957. The intense racial animosities of the Deep South are notably absent in Arkansas, where Negroes had little difficulty voting even before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In Little Rock, where schools were rigidly segregated ten years ago, some 1,400 Negroes now go to classes with whites. With a 25% Negro population statewide...
Negroes, because they have made less economic and social progress than other minorities, still tend to bloc voting in the classic pattern. But even among Negroes, the racial lines did not always hold, and Stokely Carmichael's retrograde, black-power appeal clearly upset nearly as many Negroes as whites. In Baltimore, 83% of the Negro vote went to Republican (and "ethnic" Greek) Spiro Agnew for Governor-though only two years ago it had gone equally heavily along its traditional Democratic lines for Lyndon Johnson. And though Edward Brooke drew the small Negro vote in his race for Massachusetts Senator...
Dixie Dozen. In Georgia, the hangup was a matter of old math-Southern style. With 451,032 votes, Republican Congressman Howard Call away had an undisputed lead over Democrat Lester Maddox, who had 448,598. But Democrat Ellis Arnall, a former Governor and the contest's only racial moderate, got 57,832 write-in votes and, under an amendment adopted in 1824, Georgia's constitution requires that a gubernatorial candidate must win more than 50% of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution...
Unseating an incumbent President is a formidable challenge, but even so, some newly confident G.O.P. leaders think that the party will prove equal to the task. And who knows?given such volatile ingredients as Viet Nam, the racial crisis, the uncertain economy and the volcanic personality of Lyndon B. Johnson? "The next convention," said an Iowa Republican, "is going to be looking for a man to win an election, not just someone to run a race...