Mike Gardner: CBS News Campaign 1970- 'Alabama Governor's Race'

Source:Mike Gardner- CBS News covering the 1970 Alabama Governor's race.

"George Wallace, Albert Brewer, and Charles Woods mix it up." 

From Mike Gardner

The 1970 political campaign for George Wallace running once again to be Governor of Alabama so he would have a podium to stay in the news and continue to run for President of the United States. George Wallace's 1970 political campaign was about staying in the news and remaining a viable candidate for the 1972 presidential election. 

The new South (as its called) was not there yet, but emerging even in Alabama perhaps the reddest state in the union, was moving past racism in the sense that Anglo-Southerners were moving past the point where they wanted a racist Governor, whether it was because they were moving past racism themselves or because they no longer wanted a Governor who was so flamboyant who brought so much attention to it a lot of it negative. 

Plus, African-Americans were becoming a bigger force in this state and voting more. And as a voting block needed to be taken seriously by more Progressive candidates. 

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