[Steely Tom]

The fellow he was running against (Lester Maddox) was famous for standing in front of his restaurant with an axe handle to keep black people out.

As long as we're on the subject, which political party did old Lester belong to?

[gondramB]

>>As long as we're on the subject, which political party did old Lester belong to?<<

I do believe old Lester was a Democrat - but back then everybody who got elected to any office in Georgia was a Democrat.

I think Ronald Reagan's second greatest legacy (after winning the Cold War)was to take and hold for one party a region as large and growing as the South for what is now coming up on 30 years - when white Southerners had not voted for "The party of Lincoln" in the 115 years following the War of Northern Aggression.