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Natalie Davis Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 1, 1998, pp. 62-70 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0062 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424370/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:10 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY by Natalie Davis he image of Alabama and its politics — from dogs and hoses in Birmingham, to George Wallace standing in die doorway of die university in Tuscaloosa, to a Gadsden judge who insists on hanging die Ten Commandments in his courtroom — is negative, primitive, and redneck. But it is far too facile to view Alabama politics as something of an aberration. One could argue that Alabama is not behind at all, but rather that it has always been ahead of die curve in its politics, and that what you see in Alabama today you'll see across America tomorrow. Ronald Reagan was not the first to say we needed to get government off our backs, nor was Bill Clinton original when he announced that the era of big gov- ernment was over. George Wallace was there first. In a sense, Wallace created two political games — one for the voters and one for the players. The
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