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Lester Maddox was no liberal.I think Lester Maddox called Carter a "pointy headed liberal".Where did you get the idea that Gov. Wallace wasn't a lib?
He endorsed Hard Core Ultraliberal Jimmy Carter for President.
Wallace endorsed Carter, because Carter stood up for him during Carter's days a "'not so liberal" candidate for governor. By the time that Carter ran for president in 1976, Wallace's days as a hardcore segregationist were fading, and Carter had become more liberal.
A lot happened to the social and political landscape between the era of the fight for civil rights in the early to mid 60'S and the early to mid 70's.
I am old enough to have witnessed it, and I did.
There was no way that Wallace was considered a liberal during the 60's, if ever at all.
He actually ended up near the end of his life practically begging black people for forgiveness because of his segregationist past and some were even gullible enough to believe him to be sincere.
Google is your friend. Look it up.
Jimmy Carter's racist campaign of 1970
Lester Maddox was also Jimmy Carter's handpicked running mate as Lieutenant Governor in Georgia. Both men were liberals, although I can't comment on the pointiness of Mr. Carter's head.
Sure he was a lib, Mr. Maddox was the Howard Schultz of his time. Like the leader of Starbucks, he refused to allow black non-customers use the restrooms at the Pickrick Restaurant that he was proprietor of.
Maddox was no liberal.