Lessons in Southern Populism: George Wallace Reconsidered
Why Alabama’s most polarizing governor deserves a second look.
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
Those six words, burned into every high-school textbook, reduce George C. Wallace to a cartoon villain. They hide the inconvenient reality that the same man paved Alabama’s roads, built her community colleges, raised teacher salaries, and, in the twilight of his career, asked forgiveness from …