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« on: March 24, 2004, 02:01:46 PM »
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how popular was he outside the south?  as far as i can tell,  his winning extended as far north as a few counties in missouri.

any other places of wallace strength outside of the south?
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2004, 02:04:14 PM »

furthest north is got is a few counties in Virginia I think.
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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2004, 04:04:38 PM »

He got one county in MO and a few in VA and KY. But if you mean doing reasonably well state-wide, he did make it past 10% in MI, KS, MO, IN, OH, AK, ID and NV.
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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2004, 09:37:04 PM »

George Wallace won the Michigan Democratic primary in 1972 because voters there were upset about a federal court ordering busing between Detroit and its surrounding suburbs.

Detroit had become so heavily black due to white flight that forced busing within the city would no longer bring about integrated schools.  So a federal judge ordered busing with the suburbs, which upset a lot of the Michigan voters.

This ruling was overturned in a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1974, which stated that busing across district lines could not be ordered if there was no evidence that the lines were drawn to promote segregation.

I guess Michigan is about as far north as you can get, and Wallace won the primary there.  He also had support in some quarters in Boston in 1976 during their busing crisis.
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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2004, 04:13:30 PM »

George Wallace won the Michigan Democratic primary in 1972 because voters there were upset about a federal court ordering busing between Detroit and its surrounding suburbs.

Detroit had become so heavily black due to white flight that forced busing within the city would no longer bring about integrated schools.  So a federal judge ordered busing with the suburbs, which upset a lot of the Michigan voters.

This ruling was overturned in a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1974, which stated that busing across district lines could not be ordered if there was no evidence that the lines were drawn to promote segregation.

I guess Michigan is about as far north as you can get, and Wallace won the primary there.  He also had support in some quarters in Boston in 1976 during their busing crisis.

Wallace beat Carter for 3rd place in the 1976 MA primary! Cheesy

He did well in Michigan every time...as did Perot.
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2015, 09:01:11 PM »

George Wallace won the Michigan Democratic primary in 1972 because voters there were upset about a federal court ordering busing between Detroit and its surrounding suburbs.

Detroit had become so heavily black due to white flight that forced busing within the city would no longer bring about integrated schools.  So a federal judge ordered busing with the suburbs, which upset a lot of the Michigan voters.

This ruling was overturned in a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1974, which stated that busing across district lines could not be ordered if there was no evidence that the lines were drawn to promote segregation.

I guess Michigan is about as far north as you can get, and Wallace won the primary there.  He also had support in some quarters in Boston in 1976 during their busing crisis.
Very true. In the 1968 GE Wallace won between 14-16% of the vote in 4 counties: Cass, Berrien (rural; near Indiana), Genesee (heavily working class and southern) and Macomb. South Boston is perhaps the only working class white ethnic enclave in the US that voted for McGovern in '72 and Ford in '76.
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