Racial Backlash as Yet Undetermined Force In American Elections WASHINGTON (UPI) A new votes in Wisconsin. Indiana and term found its way into cam- Maryland. He lost the primaries paign jargon in this year's elec-ibut got enough votes to tnor-tion the "backlash." . oughly frighten local Democrats who had been supporting rights. Item Voters have turned down civil rights ordinances or propositions in five out of seven local referenda in the wsi wo voars California has a state- n'iHn rpfrpndum on t fair housing law coming up, and the The word, which gave rise to i all sorts of other "lashes," was coined in reference to white opposition to Negro gains. If white voters in areas historically liberal or moderate on civil rights voted segregationist, then they were subject to the back lash. one fairly certain result: Ne groes intend to give President Johnson the most solid bloc vote they have ever accorded a presidential candidate. No one yet knows the extent of the backlash among white But the backlash produced i Pertf, ,9t?tute prba' Diy wui ue icycairu. However, the racial unrest of the "long, hot summer," has all but vanished in the cool oi tne fall. There have ben no racial riots since the outbreaks of the late summer and Ne!ro leaders demon
