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Friday is the big day. Maddox struts into a press conference, proclaims "I am a segregationist," calls Carter "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and argues with a black reporter about white rule in South Africa...
...ugly confrontations of the '50s and '60s, the bombings and Klan revivals, the school riots and statehouse harangues seem as remote as the Dred Scott decision. It is up North, in staid Boston, that the races clash and skirmish. Little Rock, Ark., scene of former Governor Orval Faubus' strident segregationist harangues, has thoroughly integrated its schools...
Maddox won on the first ballot-a victory that bitterly disappointed the intellectual faction. It also stirred talk among them to try to form yet another party, one divorced from Maddox and his segregationist image...
...G.O.P. has thus missed many opportunities to broaden the party. A few years ago, the Republicans were given a solid chance of becoming the dominant party in the South because of the breakup of the segregationist Democratic Party. But it was the Democrats who renewed themselves, welcomed the black voter whom they had formerly shunned, and became more entrenched than ever...
Young personally urged other liberal candidates to stay out of the Florida race and give Carter a chance to win in a head-on contest with the old segregationist. He stumped the state and helped garner 70% of the black vote for Carter-enough to give him his victory margin over Wallace. By then, Jimmy Carter had convinced Young that he could go all the way. Though Carter has not taken all the stock liberal positions. Young feels that blacks are instinctively sympathetic to him. "Jimmy doesn't need that much advice about black issues," says Young. "His childhood...