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...only clues are three references to "questions" in the article. Mr. Swanson says of "questions" 1. that Herrnstein left a "barrage" of them "unanswered" in his wake," 2. that SDS and UAG "continued to shower him with" them, 3. that they concerned Herrnstein's "alledgedly racist theories and his views on an Indiana sterilization law," and 4. they they were "persistent...
There have been other changes in Wallace the campaigner. The man who once declared that he would "out-nigger" anybody on the stump, whose most durable public image was blocking the schoolhouse door to blacks, seldom lets a racist tinge color his rhetoric these days. The shift is partly a response to the more moderate temper of the times in the South, partly a reflection of the fact that he no longer needs to. George Wallace has become his own code word; his people know where he stands, and his country style permits infinite shadings of nuance and allusion. Today...
...speech touched off instant debate. Some thought it was Muskie's finest hour of the 1972 campaign, producing the combative eloquence that his efforts have badly needed. Others argued that it was naive and possibly fatal to lump all Wallace's voters under a racist rubric. Primary votes are often protest votes, and there may be millions of Americans, including a good many Floridians, who share none of Wallace's residual racism but do keenly feel the sense of alienation from the system that his little-man populism plays to. That note was sounded by George McGovern...
...moderates cast their ballots for Wallace. His winning populist profile pre-empted Jackson's ability to score as an antibusing candidate. Of those Floridians who voted no on the statewide busing referendum, 54% found it "respectable" to vote for Wallace, while only 14% voted for Jackson. Nonetheless, the racist image continues to haunt Wallace. Among those who did not vote for him, 53% still think of him as racist, 34% say he is too extreme, and 26% label him a one-issue candidate...
...black people here, I have watched with detached interest as student groups like SDS and UAG evidence willingness to risk expulsion and possible prison in bold--and likely futile--efforts to convince the world (and perhaps themselves) that white Americans are not as insensitive to the centuries of white racist oppression as Herrnstein's writings suggest...