minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
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« on: December 04, 2012, 12:18:12 PM » |
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The 1950s Wallace was a Cold Warrior. He remained a Progressive on race issues. His base convictions had never anything to do with Leftism, at least not as someone from a Social Democratic tradition would term it. His 1956 endorsement is only right and logical. 1960 less so (the Democratic platform included the stronger civil rights plank that year), but I think it was quite lukewarm - and may have been based on the assumption that Kennedy would need the Southern unpledged electors to win, and govern accordingly.
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