CivilLiberty
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CSM said:I should also point out that Wallace was primarily a Democrat though he did run as a candidate for the American Independent Party in 1968, winning about 12% of the vote. His style of conservatism had more to do with segregation than anything else. All in all, Wallace ran for president 4 times; three times as a Democrat and once as a third party candidate.
Yes, and here perhaps is a problem with these black and white left/right labels.
The socio-political spectrum is not a simple one axis line of left through right, but a 3 axis graph, depicting a axis of personal freedom, one of governmental responsibility, and one of social morality (i.e. religion).
If you are "right", someone is not "left" just because they don't agree with you on certain issues. And dismissing some one as "left" is often nothing more than a thinly veiled ad hominem.