Zell Miller in History
Orwell:
Quote from: UWS on October 19, 2022, 05:24:12 AM
I guess his 2004 RNC speech hammering Kerry on national defense clearly helped Bush in winning 11 % of registered Democrats in 2004.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election#Voter_demographics
Bush won 11% of Democrats in 2000, Dole got 23% of Conservative Dems, 10% of Moderate Dems, and 5% of Liberal Dems. Bush 41 in 1992 got 11% of Liberal Dems, 9% of Moderate Dems, and 23% of Conservative Dems. 41 in 1988 got 17% of Dems.
Hell McCain got 10% of Dems, It's more likely that it wasn't a national security thing that brought over disaffected Dems, but registered Dem voters who eventually died or registered with the GOP.
Fuzzy Stands With His Friend, Chairman Sanchez:
Quote from: Mr.Barkari Sellers on October 16, 2022, 01:39:15 AM
He was a Dixiecrat just like R C Byrd was Dixiecrat was the blue dog wing of the D party that affirmed Apartheid there aren't anymore of them but they aren't Secularist or Pragmatic as the D party is today, they used Judicial Restraint not Judicial Review to segregate blks
I would not classify Zell Miller as a "Dixiecrat", but he HAS been all over the map.
Zell Miller was Chief of Staff in the 1960s for Lester Maddox. Now Lester Maddox is an incredibly interesting figure who has been forgotten and not well written about. Maddox was a guy who ran a segregated restaurant, handed out axe handles to customers to keep it that way, and ran in 1966 as a segregationist. Yet when he became Governor, Maddox (not Jimmy Carter, but Lester Maddox, mind you) integrated Georgia state government, including Law Enforcement. He also raised teachers salaries, and enacted a number of reforms that most "liberals" would have approved of. Plus, he ran an Administration that was considered to be scrupulously honest. (Maddox did endorse George Wallace in 1968 and Nixon in 1972 when he was Lt. Governor, and he absolutely hated Jimmy Carter.) This was the guy Miller was Chief of Staff for.
But when 1980 came around Miller (now Lt. Governor) was the most liberal challenger to conservative Democrat Herman Talmadge. (Rep. M. Dawson Mathis, a conservative Democrat, also challenged Talmadge.) Miller lost the runoff, but Talmadge, who was afflicted with scandals, lost the GE to Republican Mack Mattingly. By 1990 Miller was a National Democrat and his speech in 1992 to the DNC was powerful. I thought he was going to be the next big star for the Democrats, but it didn't work out that way.
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