Word: segregationist
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...same token, it is regrettable that commentators felt it necessary to label every conservative candidate who won a "right-winger," a "segregationist" or a profiteer from "white backlash." Newsmen cannot grasp the fact that we are not all liberals with Socialistic tendencies like themselves, but just plain conservatives who still believe in people doing for themselves...
...bird than even his most knowing opponents anticipated. He has promised to appoint Negroes to state boards and -while insisting that "these colored people won't be involved in our social life"-says that as Governor he would "treat all minority groups fairly." Textile Millionaire Callaway is a segregationist himself, though of a subtler hue. He claims that a Maddox victory would be a blow to the state "from which it may never recover," pleaded before a Rotary Club meeting in the tobacco town of Douglas last month: "Which one is going to bring in industry...
Campaigning for Governor in the Ozarks, Winthrop Rockefeller may look upon Elder Brother Nelson's battle in New York as a polite drawing-room exercise. Winthrop, 54, an Arkansas cattle rancher, is squared off against don't-or-die Segregationist Jim Johnson, a Wallace Democrat who resigned a $20,000-a-year seat on the State Supreme Court to run for a post that pays only $10,000. Typically, Gentleman Jim drives into town, sighs into a loud speaker, "I love all of you and, oh, oh, I do need you," then begins hugging and kissing the crowd...
...Arkansas Gazette broke nearly 150 years of Democratic tradition to favor Republican Winthrop Rockefeller for Governor over segregationist Democrat Jim Johnson...
...failed to mention that the project had had political enemies in a state that President Johnson is anxious to see solidly Democratic again. Segregationist Sen. John Stennis had attacked CDGM consistently since its inception in 1965, and even moderates who backed the Administration had complained that the project was controlled by excivil rights workers preaching "black power" and separatism. Apparently, part of the price of a Democratic Mississippi was CDGM's demise...