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Never Argue. The Japanese are businesslike and colorblind, carefully steering clear of politics, even convincing many African nationalists that to trade with Japan is the best way to avoid entanglements with either the West or the Communists. They have even managed to keep racist South Africa as their biggest single customer on the continent while selling more and more to black Africa. Reason: South Africa badly needs trading partners, and the Japanese are happy to oblige. Last year Japan expanded its trade with South Africa...
...control. All Southern Governors remain segregationists, but with a difference. Although he won office by spouting racism, Mississippi's Governor Paul Johnson is obviously trying to move the state toward greater accommodation on the civil rights front. He still defends his state's too-lenient treatment of racist killers, but he works closely with the FBI in curbing the Klan (in fact, he himself has been threatened by the Klan lately), and he has halted the use of state money to finance racist propaganda being broadcast by the declining White Citizens Council...
...true enough that the newly enfranchised Negroes, facing the practical choice "between a party that gave them civil and political rights and a party whose stock-in-trade was racist demagoguery," became loyal Republicans. Yet while the Negroes had influence in all the Southern Radical governments, they did not, in fact, control any of them. Negroes served in all the state legislatures, but they were in the majority only in South Carolina, and there only in the lower house...
...Selma seemed a natural target to Martin Luther King. The city's civil rights record was awful. There was Clark, the perfect public villain. There, too, was Mayor Joe T. Smitherman, 35, an erstwhile appliance dealer, an all-out segregationist, and a close friend of Alabama's racist Democratic Governor George Wallace...
...remembered as the year in which the Republican Party invaded the South and stayed there." But he also had a warning about the so-called "Southern strategy" that characterized the Goldwater campaign. In the future, he said, "our national strategy is not going to be based on a racist appeal, overt or covert, but on the economic conservatism of the Southern voter." And the G.O.P. must cultivate the Negro vote in the South. "You don't have to go down there and wave the Confederate flag," he said. "But we do have to take steps to see that Martin...