Word: segregationism
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The prolific chronicler of Dixie doxies and other low-lifers, Author Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell, was asked by syndicated Columnist-Inquisitor Mike Wallace: "Will sex defeat segregation [in the South]?" Observer Caldwell not only replied yes, but answered so positively that he may be suspected by some Southerners of being...
He contradicts this statement later in his letter, however, by noting, "I am in sympathy with White Citizens' Councils." His avowed purpose is "to promote segregation among serious-thinking students," and he calls John Kasper, ardent racial agitator, "a great American patriot."
One feature of the week's elections was that (except in segregation-conscious Virginia) there were no solid issues. The campaigns generally were fought and won on the basis of personality. One additional worry for the G.O.P. next year: it is shy on good, attractive candidates.
The seven Good Government Committee candidates running for office on Little Rock's city-manager-type Board of Directors tried hard to keep Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere...
The segregationist claimed that the administration of most of the Ivy Colleges are strongly against him on anti-segregation grounds. But he said that their dislike of him may be "tinted with racial prejudice" because he is Chinese.