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...every issue, Haddad and Innis will debate in separate editorial columns. "As the crescendo of black-militant demands rises," writes Haddad, "it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the old-fashioned Strom Thurmond segregationist policy of 1948 and the modern Roy Innis separationist philosophy of 1968." Retorts Innis: "This society is racist and won't change." Nevertheless, the two have some grounds for agreement. "Roy and I," says Haddad, "are not such purists that we can't isolate a problem and discuss it. We can both agree, for instance, on the need for developing black institutions." They...
Wallace's 13% was impressive in one sense: it was more than twice the combined totals won by Progressive Henry Wallace and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond in 1948 and was the largest third-party turnout since Robert La Follette garnered nearly 17% in 1924. (Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party ran second with 27.4% in 1912.) However, outside the Deep South his showing shrank dramatically below his standing in the polls through the late summer and early fall. He failed to prove his contention that the "rednecks" he bragged about were sufficiently numerous or widely enough distributed to people...
Ernest Hollings, elected in 1966 to fill an unexpired term, easily defeated his lack-luster Republican opponent in the Senatorial contest. In the Presidential race, Strom Thurmond delivered South Carolina's eight electoral votes to Nixon, with Wallace and Humphrey picking up about 30 per cent each...
...mate. In the interim, Nixon acquired a gut fighter's reputation that softened only after his forced retirement by defeats for the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962. Now he enjoys the active support of such diverse Republicans as Barry Goldwater and Jacob Javits, Strom Thurmond and Nelson Rockefeller...
...past month's campaigning-even though he has dropped somewhat in at least one poll. In Arkansas he has taken the lead from Humphrey, whose liberalism is anathema to rural Arkies, and might even manage to carry urban Pulaski County (Little Rock). South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond has been stumping the South for Nixon but strangely neglecting South Carolina. Wallace, as a result, has edged ahead. Thurmond's own supporters are so concerned that a Wallace victory would damage the Senator's prestige that they have distributed bumper stickers pleading, HELP STROM, ELECT NIXON...