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George Wallace won 90% of the black vote in the 1982 Gubernatorial election...

Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:25 am
Posted by RollTide1987
Baltimore, MD
Member since Nov 2009
70685 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:25 am
This absolutely blows my mind. Despite his famous "Segregation Forever" speech and all of his other pro-segregationist rhetoric in the 1960s and 1970s, Wallace still captured 90% of the black vote in the state of Alabama when he won re-election as a Democrat.

Who knew an apology was all you needed to earn the forgiveness of people who were present in Birmingham and Selma during his administration?

Posted by BrianKellysbuyout
Member since Nov 2025
1149 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:28 am to
It was the D next to his name. People could literally campaign in their clan sheets as long as they're a Democrat and black people will still vote for them.
Posted by Pfft
Member since Jul 2014
4990 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:34 am to
Mail in ballots prolly
Posted by BuckeyeGoon
Member since Jan 2025
1081 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:35 am to
Reminded me of this song:

Posted by Blizzard of Chizz
Member since Apr 2012
21389 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:40 am to
People love to claim the party’s flipped and all the old racists became repubs, but here is the proof it’s bullshite. George Wallace was at the very core of segregation and everything that stemmed from it. He was a democrat when he stood in the school house door and a democrat until the day he died. It is mind blowing that the man who did everything in his power to ensure blacks were treated as second class citizens could garner one black vote much less 90% percent of it.
Posted by RollingwiththeTide
Member since Oct 2020
6439 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:43 am to
LBJ once famously said about black people that he would have those n words voting Democrat for the next 100 years.
Posted by Nosevens
Member since Apr 2019
18419 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:53 am to
Those blacks didn’t want to be around liberals either
Posted by Gee Grenouille
Bogalusa
Member since Jul 2018
7773 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:57 am to
quote:

Who knew an apology was all you needed to earn the forgiveness of people who were present in Birmingham and Selma during his administration?


Has it ever occurred to you that blacks liked having their own shite?
Posted by SPEEDY
2005 Tiger Smack Poster of the Year
Member since Dec 2003
87875 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:58 am to
Blacks will always vote democrat no matter what they do.

Thats why Dems ignore them except when it’s election season.

Very few break from that democratic plantation
Posted by Jebadeb
Member since Oct 2017
5789 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:04 am to
Dems get credit for civil rights because of JFK and LBJ. Can't help but wonder if it was just all part of the playbook.
Posted by RollTide1987
Baltimore, MD
Member since Nov 2009
70685 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:13 am to
quote:

Has it ever occurred to you that blacks liked having their own stuff?



That is a gross oversimplification of segregation. It also ignores all of the pro-segregationist violence against black Americans that Wallace turned a blind eye to throughout his tenure as governor.
Posted by captainFid
Never apologize to barbarism
Member since Dec 2014
9963 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:14 am to
quote:

Who knew an apology was all you needed

If you're a Democrat, you mean.
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
21218 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:16 am to
quote:

It was the D next to his name. People could literally campaign in their clan sheets as long as they're a Democrat and black people will still vote for them.


One only has to look at the bank accounts associated with their Reverends to understand why the congregation votes that way. On Sunday, the reason for their long sermons is due to the political discussion held behind the pulpit!!
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
18850 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:21 am to
Wallace was in favor of segregation, just as the entire black population is right now.

Maybe even less so.
Posted by Boomdaddy65201
BoCoMo
Member since Mar 2020
4403 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:30 am to
quote:

Dems get credit for civil rights because of JFK and LBJ. Can't help but wonder if it was just all part of the playbook.


The Civil Rights Act never gets passed if it wasn’t for Republican senators, the Democrats had no intention of ever letting it pass. And LBJ said he’d have “those n@@ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years”.

Somewhere out there, there’s a really good documentary regarding the civil rights initiative, I believe it was originally aired on PBS. It gets down to the true nuts & bolts of it. Some serious leg work was done by the Congessional committee tasked with it and how much it would cost. They brought it back to LBJ’s desk and he went berserk, literally screamed at the them when the financials were revealed.
Posted by wareaglepete
Union of Soviet Auburn Republics
Member since Dec 2012
18110 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:34 am to
Wallace just took a page from the LBJ book. He was promising hand outs left and right. That got him the black vote.
Posted by Tree_Fall
Member since Mar 2021
1201 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 12:03 pm to
My recollection of that era is that black population saw Wallace as honest and unambiguous in his beliefs. It had to be suspected that most other White politicians were lying racists.
Posted by GeauxtigersMs36
The coast
Member since Jan 2018
12862 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 12:05 pm to
Posted by sgallo3
Lake Charles
Member since Sep 2008
26380 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 12:07 pm to
This is how the uniparty remains in power. They know 90%+ are too scared of voting outside the box because they feel like they lose if the person they vote for doesnt win.

Its why non D or R politicians have no chance. People should vote on principles rather than treating it like sports. If your candidate loses it doesnt mean you lost. You voted for what you wanted and were outvoted by morons.
Posted by Csmims
A sandy beach in paradise
Member since Jan 2019
3886 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 12:13 pm to
As Nancy Pelosi once said, put a D on a glass of water and Democrats will vote for it
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