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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (262287)	7/19/2010 10:30:46 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 306849

He had a change of heart after he got plugged in Wisconsin. Goes to show, racism can be transient, people change sometimes.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (262287)	7/20/2010 12:02:24 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Respond to of 306849

<<George Wallace was even endorsed by the NAACP!>> Yes, in 1958. Running against John Patterson, who was backed by the KKK: ...As Attorney General, Patterson worked against organized crime, but his activities against the civil rights movement gained more attention. He managed to ban the NAACP from operating in the state of Alabama, and blocked the black community's boycotts in Tuskegee and Montgomery. With backing from the Ku Klux Klan, Patterson defeated a young George Wallace, backed by the NAACP in the Democratic primaries and was elected Governor in 1958, making him the youngest governor in Alabama history, and the first to move directly from the post of Attorney General to Governor.... en.wikipedia.org Wallace's reaction: .... Wallace thought his more principled stand would prevail. He was wrong: he lost heavily. He had never lost before. It was at this point that the chilly little whisper snaked into his ear. He slouched into his campaign manager's office: "Seymore, you know why I lost that governor's race?" "I'm not sure, Judge." "I was outniggered. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be outniggered again." He wasn't. Perfectly reasonable in conversation, he would then go out and make the most egregiously racist speeches. He set up whole regiments of straw men. He fulminated against "bald-faced, scalawaggin', carpetbaggin', no-good, no-account, integratin' liars" – including his oldest friend, Judge Johnson. He boldly defied federal government – while secretly asking to be locked up, "just for a day." One bewildered supporter asked, "George, why are you doing this?" He replied, with a touch of rue, "I tried to talk about good roads and good schools… nobody listened. I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floor." Wallace won the Governor's race in 1962 with a record majority. It may even have helped that his speechwriter was, as later proved, a psychopath... bozosapiens.blogspot.com By the way, this was the Democratic Party primary. At the time in the South, a Democrat was someone who remembered what the Republicans did in the 1860's. The party alignments eventually changed, and so did Wallace after he got shot.