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In this episode of The Rest Is History, Dominic explains the political rise and fall of George Wallace, and how the South turned against the Democratic Party, and towards the Republicans. Forging an electoral coalition of blue collar workers in the North and the Deep South, George Wallace is a figure who heralded a new style of politics which has continued after him.
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, was one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates in American history. In 1968, he ran a populist campaign pitching himself against the Civil Rights movement. He pushed to uphold formal structures of white supremacy in the South, forever employing racist dog whistles at his rallies and in the media. He may not have won the presidency, but his approach paved the way for a new, incendiary brand of politics, which permeates American society to this day.
00:00 Introducing George Wallace
3:25 The backstory of George Wallace
4:00 'The Lost Cause'
5:15 Wallace as a student
6:50 Politics of Alabama
7:25 Race in Alabama
9:00 His wife
9:42 'Big Jim'
11:28 The first campaign
17:32 The 1963 Montgomery protests
20:52 The 1964 campaign
24:45 The governorship of his wife
30:05 Direct mail
31:33 The '68 campaign
42:10 Similarities between Wallace and Reagan
48:00 Dream scenario for his campaign
48:55 Things start to go wrong
50:20 Curtis LeMay
56:55 The home stretch of the campaign
1:00:20 Why George Wallace matters
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