A bit of history on ZigZagZell

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Hi I am Zell Miller...let me introduce myself...

Today's democrats are too liberal--they should be like my old buddy Lester...
We have become too liberal nowadays. Real Democrats should be like Lester Maddox, the guy who I was chief of staff for.....

http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/062603/LOCMaddoxAP.shtml

Maddox's legacy is remembered by fist shaking, political resistance and flamboyance

By Dick Pettys
The Associated Press

ATLANTA -- Lester Maddox, one of the South's last fist-shaking segregationist governors who rode into office in 1966 on the notoriety of chasing blacks from his restaurant, died Wednesday. He was 87.

While Alabama's George Wallace and other prominent segregationists of the era eventually said they were wrong and sought to make amends, Maddox went to his death without ever backing down.

"I think forced segregation was wrong. I think it was just as wrong to force integration." And if he had it to do all over, "I'd fight even harder," he told The Associated Press in 1996.

A high school dropout born in a working-class section of Atlanta, Maddox's flair for political showmanship and his anti-integration stance won him a local following in Atlanta, where he made two unsuccessful bids for mayor.

But his fame grew to national proportions in 1964 when a widely disseminated newspaper photograph showed him picking up a pistol and chasing black protesters from his Pickrick fried chicken restaurant the day after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.
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