Geezers! Was St Ronnie a version of "George Wallace Lite"?
Edited on Wed Jun-09-04 07:44 PM by Ernesto
This is for all you geezers out there who might remember the huge popularity of Wallace's unabashed racism. Wasn't the gipper just another bigot that was more acceptable to "decent white folks" because he was packaged with code words instead of Wallace's "in your face" style? I think You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Wallace was a bigot and that was his main story line. I don't think Reagan was an bigot. He was unconcerned with all disadvantaged people equally, it wasn't a race thing. Kinda like W.
Wallace eventually saw the light and, amazingly, was elected to a fourth term as Governor of Alabama late in his career with a healthy percentage of black votes, something Reagan couldn't even have dreamed of.
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion
board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules
page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the
opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent
the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.