The Politics of Resentment (1 of 2)

Let’s start with two governors. In 1958 in Alabama, a trial court judge, a moderate Democrat who was endorsed by the NAACP and who sat on the board of trustees the Tuskegee Institute, a prominent black educational institution, ran for governor against a candidate who was supported by the Ku Klux Klan. The moderate Democrat lost the election. The victorious candidate said he won because his opponent was soft on the race question. As he was preparing his concession remarks, George Wallace turned to his campaign team and said, “no other son-of-a-bitch will ever out-nigger me again.”

Wallace again ran for governor in 1962 and won.… Read the rest