Word: southern
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...G.O.P. noticed back. Four years later, Nixon rode to victory over Hubert Humphrey partly on the strength of a Southern strategy devised to move the Dixiecrats permanently into the Republican camp. While remaining formally committed to racial equality, Nixon made clear he would go slow on the federal enforcement of voting rights and integration. For his '68 campaign he also recruited prominent Southerners from the Goldwater circle, including South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, an early defector from the Democrats. Meanwhile, under the pressure from the long hot summers of racial riots, the antiwar and black-power movements and the gleefully...
Reading those numbers, Kevin Phillips, a Nixon campaign aide and architect of the Southern strategy, saw the future, and it worked. In his book The Emerging Republican Majority, he predicted an unbeatable G.O.P. coalition of Southern and Western voters united by their resentment of Northeastern power and their fear of urban blacks. "A new era has begun," he promised. And it had. As Michael Lind points out in his new book Up from Conservatism, after the 1934 congressional elections, the first of the New Deal era, the South had virtually no Republicans in Congress. Now it has more Republicans than...
Until his change of heart, Leyden had given 15 years of his life to brawling and recruiting for neo-Nazi causes. His activities had even landed him on the Klanwatch list compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. But in June, Leyden walked into the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and renounced his former life. It was not an easy thing to do: Klanwatch analyst Laurie Wood says Leyden is "asking for trouble" from his former associates...
...softball team and almost certainly its perkiest. A former college star at UCLA, she continued to play through medical school, and now works as an orthopedic surgeon. To train for the Olympics, she took a one-year leave of absence from her residency at the University of Southern California; two days after the gold-medal victory, she returned to her rounds at the hospital. Or at least tried to. The hospital held a congratulatory press conference; the USC band serenaded her outside the hospital; and she got a standing ovation at Dodger stadium. The celebration continues this week with...
...women. In America, by contrast, men's soccer is still struggling for attention, while schoolgirls play the sport avidly. "There were no inhibitions for girls to play when we were young," says Julie Foudy, 25, a nine-year veteran of the U.S. national team. "I grew up in Southern California, and everybody plays. There's a great grass-roots program...