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64 Political Winds ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AMD CHRONICLE Sunday, Nov. 3, 1963 13A Waldert: Recommended by your Eye Physician for 51 Years White Backlash' Seen on Civil Right Moreover, most Democrats concede that Alabama and Mississippi already are irrevocably lost to Kennedy because of civil rights strife, either to the Republicans or to some third-party slate of electors. All this means that there are perhaps no more than 70 electoral votes that "strong" as the state antidiscrimination laws under which they have been living for years. This shows up, they say, in constituent mail, which is made up largely of vague entreaties to vote for or against the civil rights bill without any discussion of particulars such as you find in mail on, for example, the tax bill. tic Daley administration in Chicago.

MAXY DEMOCRATS are convinced that the timing of the congressional action on the civil rights legislation is the crucial factor. They contend that many Northern whites don't realize that the administration program is not nearly so ii mi mm mix: tmtmmmmm v'i prv 1 i Temple of Fashion A little ingenious slant find a new ihle is born! Wouldn't you know Waldert would help you pan the work day and the holidays so smartly! New Frames arrive daily at our four Fashion Centers, so come, see yourself for yourself. could be said to be hang ing in the balance, and no p- mjmmuml A- il By JACK W. GERMOND Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Al. though the presidential election is still a year away, the so-called "white backlash" on civil rights is emerging as a major imponderable in the 1964 campaign.

Almost to a man, knowledgeable politicians in both parties here contend that reaction to what some consider "favoritism" of Negroes will be an important "silent" issue. So far this concern has been largely based on seat-of-the-pants, intuitive testing of the political winds by experienced professionals rather than on any specific information. "It's like the religious Issue in I960." one congressman said. "Nobody really knows how many people voted for or against Kennedy because he was a at the end of a string of expletives. Orange and black "Goldwater in '64" stickers are everywhere.

And in Mississippi, "K.O. the Kennedys" becomes slogan in a state election campaign in which the central issue is the intensity of anti-Washington, anti-civil rights, anti-Kennedy administration feeling. But the fact is that the South is not so important to the Democratic prospects in 1964 as Republicans make it appear in their bitter squabbling over how far to go in wooing votes below the Mason-Dixon line. For one thing, the South Is no longer the "solid" bloc it once was. Florida, Virginia and Tennessee have given their electoral votes to the Republicans in each of the last three presidential elections.

Texas has gone to the GOP twice and Louisiana, once. CHRISTMAS une expt-Lis uiem to swing solidly one way or the other. By contrast, the prospect of serious trouble in northern industrial states the base of the President's support in 1960 is enough to cause tremors among even the most hard-nosed Democratic professionals. This is the reason there is so much interest in straws in the wind like the Philadelphia election or the recent white demonstrations against the Democra- WALDER Why Not Plan to Celebrate It In Your New Home in Mapledale? If you pay $125 a month (or more) you can purchase thii home. No cash required, no closing coiti and the builder pays all fees.

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