Word: thurmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Carolina, Strom Thurmond emphasizes what he calls his "Little Man's Advocate". "You know where Strom stands--he stands for you," announces his campaign brochure...
...reality, Thurmond has been an aggressive watchdog for corporate interests on several fronts. He fought hard to defeat the labor law reform bill, for example, and has even gone so far as to actively discourage companies that were less than rabidly anti-union from locating in South Carolina...
Perhaps there is no clearer example of Thurmond's political agility than his relationship with the blacks who make up almost a third of the state's populations. In 1970, recently enfranchised blacks helped defeat a Thurmond protege: Albert Watson--after a blatantly racist gubernatorial campaign. Since then, Thurmond has made several highly visible gestures to woo blacks--sending his children to an integrated school, supporting full Congressional representation for the District of Columbia, steering some patronage to black leaders...
...testament to Thurmond's savvy that such maneuvers are likely to prove effective in drawing blacks to Thurmond's campaign, even though he remains as vigorously opposed as ever to any proposals challenging the basic economic structure which has permitted severe poverty to engulf many of South Carolina's blacks...
Jesse Helms is a different political creature, newer to the game and more like the Thurmond of 30 years in the vitriol of his rhetoric. But the charade is similar. Like Thurmond, he identifies himself as a "champion of the little people" while amassing an enormous campaign warchest, much of it from out-of-state business interests (his opponent has dubbed him "the $6 million...