The Independent - London, September 15th, 1998
FOR MOST of his political career George Wallace, four times Governor of Alabama and twice a major contender for the White House, was the living epitomy of the racist Democrat politics of the old south. True, changing realities would later force him to recant, so successfully that he even managed to persuade a fair proportion of black voters to support him. But it was as a diehard white supremacist and segregationist, and eloquent foe of Washington and all its interventionist works, that he became a legend. That too was how he made his greatest mark upon American politics.
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