I always think of Wallace with great irony, he was staunchly anti-desegregation and then when he was shot and left in a wheel chair and had been on the receiving end of discrimination he joined forces with people for desegregation.
Yes, but what liberals fail to remember was that Wallace was the most liberal judge in the state of Alabama. When he lost to a pro-segregationist the first time around, he realized he needed to change his desegregation stance to get elected. So he flip flopped on the issues just to gain power. He was an early version of John Kerry