| Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This analysis about Wallace vs Nixon misses a critical historical fact - in the 1968 election (the one that made Nixon president), Wallace himself ran as a third party candidate and Alabama was one of the few states that voted their electoral college votes for Wallace. So that whole bit about Watergate is not a complex argument about northern versus southern guilt for bad politicians, but a much simpler claim that Alabama didn't vote Nixon into office so can't be held responsible for the crimes/scandals he committed. I think the "we all did what we could do" is also a reference to that - Alabama did all it could to prevent Nixon from getting into office. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...election,_1968 for the map of the electoral college results. |
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