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...Warren G. Harding 60.8% 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 61.1% 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 60.7% 1972 Richard M. Nixon...
BORN: Nov. 23, 1946, Albany, Ga. EDUCATION: Roosevelt U, B.A., 1973; U of Illinois, M.A., 1994 FAMILY: Wife, Carolyn Thomas; five children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY SERVICE: Army, 1963-68 OCCUPATION: Activist POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Chicago Board of Aldermen, 1975; sought Democratic nomination for Illinois House, 1978; Chicago Board of Aldermen, 1983-93 ADDRESS: 3361 South King Drive, Chicago...
Once upon a time the Palmetto State was a bastion of Democratism--of the 99,000 South Carolinians who voted for President in 1940, 96% were members of the old coalition party brought together by Franklin D. Roosevelt. As recently as 1976, Jimmy Carter won the state handily. But that was the last victory for a Democratic presidential candidate in South Carolina--the state gave George Bush his second highest percentage (after Mississippi) in the nation in 1992. A one-man symbol of this trend--and many others--is the state's 93-year-old Senior Senator Strom Thurmond...
...climes. This gave the state a legacy of sparsely settled natural beauty, which, over the past three decades, fostered a population increase of more than 48%. It was a liberal migration that contributed to a small political revolution: a state that was one of only two to vote against Roosevelt in 1936 in 1990 sent Congress its first Socialist Representative since...
...there was little doubt about where Roosevelt stood. In his last major speech of the campaign, before a teeming crowd in Madison Square Garden, FDR "called the roll" of those who had stood with him and those who had sought to stifle his "bold, persistent experimentation." He spoke out against the "enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering...