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...durability of Thurmond and Helms--and more importantly, their adaptability--has important implications for the no-longer-so-nascent Far Right in American politics...
...ELECTION campaigns of Senators Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) say a lot about the state of the American Right this year. It's not that their likely victories will actually contribute to the much-fabled Shift to the Right. They will not preside over the funeral of the "New South" (a fashionable phrase since at least the 1870s). There will be no total surrender to the beast that just gobbled Michael Dukakis...
...standards, this pair should be politically extinct--confined to the junkheap of rusted-out racists like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. It was Thurmond, after all, who led the Dixiecrat walkout at the 1948 Democratic convention over Harry Truman's modest civil rights proposals and soon earned a reputation as the Senate's foremost segregationist. Television commentator Helms used race to boost him to the Senate...
...unlike others of their ilk, these two learned the merits of flexibility--a little-recognized characteristic of the New Right. It is, of course, opportunism, not dogmatism, that gives the Right its bite, and Thurmond and Helms are specialists at tailoring their positions to rightwing fashions. Thurmond may perform octogenerian calisthetics, and Helms may run off his mouth in seemingly candid ways, but the iconoclasm is a put-on. Both are skilled professionals when it comes to pushing the panic buttons on issues like the Panama Canal, gun control and the ERA. And both know that while race...
...Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd referred to the District's status as "conscription without representation." While conservative Republicans generally opposed the measure, Democratic liberals strongly favored it. There were some notable exceptions, however. Two G.O.P. presidential hopefuls?Howard Baker and Robert Dole?voted aye. So did onetime Segregationist Strom Thurmond, who needs every black vote he can get in a close reelection campaign in South Carolina. "Thurmond came over," said Civil Rights Activist Joseph Rauh, "and that was the vote that really made the difference...