[there used to be a video here, but it has disappeared thanks to internet rot] In 1968 and 1972, Richard Nixon’s campaign had hedged a challenge from the racial right embodied by George Wallace by employing the so-called “Southern Strategy:” a series of policies with coded racial undertones (think “states rights” versus “civil rights”). However, Ford’s more amiable demeanor didn’t take well to that type of campaign, and with the nomination of folksy Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, he found himself against the wall in the South. While this ad only featured Strom Thurmond’s talking head saying that...
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It's International Beer Day! Thank Jimmy Carter!
SEE UPDATE/CORRECTION BELOW Today is International Beer Day,* and if you’re a lover of fine micro-brews (and I know you are), you have but one person to thank. No, not Jim Koch. The person you must thank is none other than former President Jimmy Carter. E.D. Kain explains: To make a long story short, prohibition led to the dismantling of many small breweries around the nation. When prohibition was lifted, government tightly regulated the market, and small scale producers were essentially shut out of the beer market altogether. Regulations imposed at the time greatly benefited the large...
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