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Backlash’s reach shapes pivotal U S races editor’s note
In a sweeping national view, the backlash to civil rights tensions may sway elections from California to Georgia. Amid riots, housing, and open housing debates, candidates from Brown Reagan to Maddox confront how white backlash could alter voter support, with figures like Brooke, Kennedy, Agnew, and Sabonjian cited as symbols of the era's pressure points.
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Chicago Lawn
Maryland
Lester Faddox
Avianta
Georgia
Ray C. Bliss
Boston School Board
Massachusetts
Edward Brooke
U.S. Senate
Viet Nam
Sociel Engineering
California
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Ronald Reagan
Watts
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Oakland
Reagan
Pitts
Illinois
Paul H. Douglas
Charies H. Percy
Douglas
Percy
Peoria Journal Star
Chicago
West Side
Chicago Sun-Times
Douglast
12Th Ward
Waukegan
Robert V. Sabonjian
Sabonjian
Brooke
TSS
Mississippi
Geners
Er Dbett Peabody
Hicks
Peabody
eHorts
Boston
Edward
Song State
Senate
George P. Mahoney
Mahoney
Baltimore County
Carleton R. Sickies
Spiro T Agnew
Hyman A. Pressman
Agnew
Pressman
Sen. Dirksen
Everett M. Dirksen
Hllinois
Senate Acon
Great Society
Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Jacob K. Javits
Rox.y
Maddox
Summerhill
A .Necro
Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
Rep
Howard Callaway
Congress
Carl Eg. Sanders
Callaway
James Gray
Calloway
Gainesville
Ivy