Word: scammenberg
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...Wattenberg, who backed Henry M. Jackson for the 1976 Democratic nomination, base their argument on the fact that while several constituencies (notably blacks, Jews and labor) can claim that Carter could not have won "without us," only white Southerners can say that he succeeded "because of us." Indeed, the "Scammenberg" thesis is that Southern whites, in giving Carter "the margin of difference," abandoned their natural conservatism to such a degree that "the great paradox" of 1976 was that Carter ran strongest in the region where recent Democratic presidential candidates had been weakest. Because of white disaffection with liberal national candidates...
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