BTW Pollutico - Wallace was a Democrat.
BRAVO!!! Many people lose sight of the fact that most of the institutionalized racism and bigotry ( i.e. the Jim Crow Laws ) which existed after the Civil War and beyond can be laid at the door of the Democrats.
BTW Pollutico - Martin Luther King was a Republican.
Democrats even tried to smear Martin Luther King back in the 1960's - until they decided it was politically expedient to hijack the Civil Rights Movement!
Here is an interesting article from the National Black Republican Associatiuon
Democrats Smeared MLK
By Frances Rice
http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-DemocratsSmearedMLK