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...Distrust. Despite a few antipress outbursts, the Sunbelt Republicans, who provided most of the convention action, appeared to have outgrown their old distrust of the Eastern-based networks. "They have discovered what protesting students and blacks discovered a decade ago," concluded Columnist Joseph Kraft. "They have come to know how to play media games." Indeed, in many ways the convention was a manipulated-for-TV event. President Ford and Ronald Reagan scheduled their arrivals in Kansas City to ensure live coverage on the ABC and CBS pre-convention specials. The Ford forces posted two men in trailers just outside...
...liberal Northerner, Reagan feels it could tear the convention apart. He personally will oppose such a move. Says he: "It would be a foolish mistake. Ford would lose the South. And a lot of Republicans might not work for him. The balance of the country is in the Sunbelt, and that's where the future of our party...
...demonstrated such consistent insensitivity to the mood of the national electorate that it is unlikely he could have succeeded with any party. But it's also true that a shift took place within the GOP; power was moving to the string of Southern and Western states that constitute the sunbelt. That area was the main beneficiary of the post-WW II boom, still unhibited by the countervailing force of strong trade-unionism. Rockefeller stumbled upon this split by accident, purely out of his search for a political base. But he came down on the wrong side of it and thereby...
Nixon observed the workings of that convention closely and came out of it understanding what he'd have to do and whom he had to court to get the nomination in four years. He spent the intervening time campaigning for local Republican candidates, particularly in the sunbelt, picking up IOU's wherever he went. So when Rockefeller emerged with his inevitable polls showing him beating Johnson in '68, it hardly mattered--Nixon had the GOP county chairmen. Rockefeller tried to offset Nixon's advantage with a $4.6 million media blitz and a new set of polls. But after the assassination...
Garcia finally won approval of the revised budget in early November, and the operation now entered its second phase--the face-to-face recruitment of Chicano seniors in Sunbelt high school, conducted shortly before Thanksgiving. For many Chicanos who volunteered to make the trips out west, the experience involved several hardships. The group visited four or five high schools each day for seven days. There was no studying and there were no wages. Viola Canales '79, who recruited in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas says "when I went down to the valley, it was no vacation...