No southern comfort in House battle: key suburban races to determine whether Dems can retake control. (Democrat candidate Lois Mayer vs. Republican Renee Kosel for the 38th District Illinois House seat)Crown, Judith
(Such openly racistrhetoricwas left to people such as DemocratGeorge Wallace, who ran as an independent presidential candidate in 1968.) Instead, they began using coded phrases such as “law and order” (suggesting intolerance of antiwar and civil rights protests), the “silent majority” (...
presidential election showing three of the candidates—(left to right) Republican Abraham Lincoln, Northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge—tearing the country apart while the Constitutional Union candidate, John Bell, applies glue from a tiny useless pot.(...