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...better); 54 if the general level drops much more than 5 per cent, and this drags under almost all the marginal freshmen. Incidentally, the loss in Democratic votes will understate the drop in "liberal votes; conservative Democrats are likely to regain a few of the seats they lost to segregationist Goldwater Republicans in the South...
...Regular Mississippi Democrats, headed by old-line segregationist and four-term Senator James Eastland, 61, overwhelmingly defeated a challenge by the Freedom Democratic Party, whose membership is almost 100% Negro. Though the F.D.P. received only 12% of the primary ballot, the election nonetheless marked the first time since Reconstruction that Negroes voted in significant numbers in Mississippi. Also for the first time, Eastland will face substantial opposition in the general election. Representative Prentiss Walker, a leader of the newly vitalized state G.O.P., has made no bid for the Negro vote; yet many Negroes may vote for him, if only...
...city-boy opponent, Miami Mayor Robert King High, 42. Still trying to undercut Kelly in the outback, Burns then raised the race issue, warning that High would deliver the state into the hands of the "Negro bloc." He urged Florida to "follow the example of Alabama" in nominating a segregationist. Second mistake...
...better); 54 if the general level drops much more than 5 per cent, and thus drags under almost all the marginal freshmen. Incidentally, the loss in Democratic votes will understate the drop in "liberal votes; conservative Democrats are likely to regain a few of the seats they lost to segregationist Goldwater Republicans in the South...
...election results shed considerably less credit on the white voters of Alabama, who overwhelmingly endorsed Lurleen Wallace as her segregationist husband's puppet candidate in a cynical attempt to evade the state's constitutional provision that prohibits a Governor from succeeding himself (see following story). Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King denounced Lurleen's victory as "a protest vote against the tide of inevitable progress...