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If I were to say what a racist from WV would look like it would be the guy in this video with the black hair. He reminds me the Wonderful Whites of West Virginia - a documentary about a hillbilly, tap dancing family that are, well, racists.
 
If I were to say what a racist from WV would look like it would be the guy in this video with the black hair. He reminds me the Wonderful Whites of West Virginia - a documentary about a hillbilly, tap dancing family that are, well, racists.

That’s George Wallace. Presidential candidate in 1968: He won 9,901,118 popular votes (out of a total of 73,199,998)—that is, 13.53% of votes cast nationally—carried five Southern states - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi - won 45 electoral votes plus one vote from a faithless elector, and came fairly close to receiving enough votes to throw the election. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_1968_presidential_campaign)
 
That’s George Wallace. Presidential candidate in 1968: He won 9,901,118 popular votes (out of a total of 73,199,998)—that is, 13.53% of votes cast nationally—carried five Southern states - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi - won 45 electoral votes plus one vote from a faithless elector, and came fairly close to receiving enough votes to throw the election. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_1968_presidential_campaign)

If there's a glass half full perspective on this, even though our country still has racism problems since this time, we've taken many steps forward.
 
That’s George Wallace. Presidential candidate in 1968: He won 9,901,118 popular votes (out of a total of 73,199,998)—that is, 13.53% of votes cast nationally—carried five Southern states - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi - won 45 electoral votes plus one vote from a faithless elector, and came fairly close to receiving enough votes to throw the election. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_1968_presidential_campaign)

For some reason I have very clear childhood memories of commercials for some made for TV movie about him (TNT I think?). "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" rings very clearly in my ears for someone who grew up in the 90's.
 
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