Bounce High the Head Beams, Governor

In the volatile political world of George Corley Wallace, it is Aginism, not the League of Women Voters, that drives people to the polls. The average Alabaman traditionally marks his ballot as an act of reprisal, delivering not mandates but injunctions. He is agin Bobby Kennedy, agin Martin Luther King, agin Henry Luce…. the list is prodigious. And once he is convinced that any of his bêtes nords have a candidate in a race, stand aside—the Aginist voter will shoot his way into the polls if necessary.

“I am a protest candidate against the Liberal trend in government,” declared Wallace at the outset of his three-state primary search for up-country cousins. “A vote for me will bounce radar beams off the heads of the Washington Liberals and start them thinking about conservatism.”

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In the volatile political world of George Corley Wallace, it is Aginism, not the League of Women Voters, that drives people to the polls. The average Alabaman traditionally marks his ballot as an act of reprisal, delivering not mandates but injunctions. He is agin Bobby Kennedy, agin Martin Luther King, agin Henry Luce…. the list is prodigious. And once he is convinced that any of his bêtes nords have a candidate in a race, stand aside—the Aginist voter will shoot his way into the polls if necessary.

“I am a protest candidate against the Liberal trend in government,” declared Wallace at the outset of his three-state primary search for up-country cousins. “A vote for me will bounce radar beams off the heads of the Washington Liberals and start them thinking about conservatism.”