Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A dissenting opinion regarding the importance of the South was voiced by Alfred C. Hanford, professor of Government, a Republican. Hanford felt that the South will be secure to the Democrats as long as Southern party members take "the attitude they do" toward segregation.
Oscar Handlin, professor of History, rebutted in this month's Atlantic Monthly an article by Herbert R. Sass describing the South's position on racial segregation.
Sass's argument for segregation maintained that racial "separation" is an American heritage and an evolutionary law. He felt, however, that if untutored children were placed in close contact with another race, this law might be ignored.
The most conspicuous example of this false and American idealism is in Giant's handling of the segregation issue, through the somewhat less flagrant problem of Texan prejudice against Mexican-Americans. The movie does depict the trend in Mexican-Texan relations correctly--only the old settlers do not understand the...
Adlai still clung to a narrow lead in Minnesota and Oklahoma. Stevenson carried Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia, but seemed likely in each case to end with narrower margins than in 1952. An irony of G.O.P. gains in the South was that they came largely from segregation-conscious white...