Colin
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« on: September 04, 2006, 09:26:55 PM » |
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Well yes I believe Wikipedia states that by the late 70's he had become a born-again Christian and recanted his early rascist tendencies though I doubt he ever actually believed anything he said.
As Gustaf said in 1956 Wallace ran in the primaries as the anti-segregation candidate and after he was defeated he utter his famous "I'll never be outn*ggered again" line. So he acted like a strict segregationist for what is was worth. Once the whole Civil Rights battle was fought he then went back to his old positions in order to gain African-American support.
Really Wallace was a political chameleon more than anything else but he wasn't an economic conservative, not by a long shot. The man was an old Populist Law and Order Southern Democrat.
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