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Article: Wallace, George C., Jr., 1919-
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- American Decades
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WALLACE, GEORGE C., JR., 1919-
Governor of alabama; presidential candidate
Fashioning a Conservative Electorate
Earlier than any other political figure, George Wallace recognized the ideological shift in American voters
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especially blue-collar Democrats
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that would eventually vault Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980. A gritty southern populist, Wallace tapped into the resentments of an electorate sick of the cultural revolutions of the 1960s, opposed to governmental power, and determined to reassert old-fashioned verities in a volatile age. Every winning presidential candidate from 1968 to 1984 built upon the conservative electorate Wallace first fashioned as his own; ...
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