Carter code word racism 1976
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/4/15/on-purity-pbtbhe-1968-presidential-campaign/
The starkest example of Carter’s use of code-word racism in his search for votes came two weeks ago in South Bend, Indiana. Carter said the federal government should not attempt to break down the “ethnic purity” of white neighborhoods by assisting blacks or other minorities to move to such neighborhoods. He spoke of “alien groups,” meaning blacks, and with less subtlety, in a newspaper interview a few days before the South Bend speech, referred directly to “black intrusion.”
But while these remarks may be the most obvious indication of a racist current in the Carter campaign, this current has in fact been consistently present. Indeed as Senator Hubert Humphrey has said, heavily anti-Washington and anti-urban rhetoric is nothing more than the newest form of disguised racism. And although Humphrey, in nothing this phenomenon, did not point specifically to any candidate, it is Carter who has decried federal aid to the cities, Carter who has spoken of the “burden” of welfare, and Carter who has posed himself as the anti-Washington force.
But it is Carter who has carefully but deliberately injected the race issue into the current campaign, and it would be wrong to fail to distinguish between him and the other candidates on this question.
The Carter campaign is then a dangerous campaign. Carter should be defeated in Pennsylvania, and those who have supported him but would still wish to view themselves as within the American liberal tradition, should repudiate that support.
My mistake Bubba lost the deep south.
Chevy Chase on SNL pegged him back in the day on Weekend Update:
Jimmy Carter said today that he doesn’t jusge a man by the color of his skin but by the size of his nostrils...