Abstract

No Place to Bolt

The author says that not since the Democratic Party returned to power in 1932, to give the South disproportionate influence in national party politics, has that peculiar region had so little to bargain with as it does on the eve of the 1960 Democratic convention. The South's hope for a commanding position from which to bargain with the national party has been steadily going to pot. Ever since the 1956 convention, one event has followed another to make it apparent to professionals that the South's support could only embarrass a national party. Some have made no beans about their contempt for the South. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower has recently sent troops to Little Rock, which closed the Republican Party as an avenue to almost all Southern politicians.