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Wallaceite, n. (and a.)|ˈwɒləsaɪt|
[f. the surname Wallace (see below) + -ite1.]
1. U.S. (now Hist.). A follower or supporter of Henry Agard Wallace (1888–1965), Vice-President of the U.S. (1941–4), agriculturist and statesman, or his policies, esp. during his ‘Progressive’ campaign for the presidency in 1948. Also attrib. or as adj.
1948New Republic 19 Apr. 10/1 Ten million votes seem so clearly in view to the Wallaceites that they have decided to try for 20 million. 1974A. Yarnell Democrats & Progressives vii. 113 What can be said of the Democrats and their response to the Wallaceites? 1984National Rev. (U.S.) 20 Apr. 17/1 The Wallaceite accommodationist Left was forced to the margins of the party.
2. A follower or supporter of George Corley Wallace (b. 1919), U.S. politician and former Democratic governor of Alabama, or his policies, spec. of his segregationist stance. Also attrib. or as adj. Chiefly U.S.
1968Economist 17 Aug. 26/1 This was the state convention of the Loyal Democratic party of Mississippi, purporting to replace the convention held in July by the regular Democratic party led by its Wallaceite Governor, Mr John Bell Williams. 1968Guardian 3 Oct. 9/4, 150 determined Wallaceites were able to block a Humphrey endorsement. 1972N.Y. Times 22 Sept. 43 In the 1970's, mature President Nixon is imitating George C. Wallace and playing for the Wallaceite vote. 1978Washington Post 24 Feb. a14/5 If you had told me two years ago I would one day sit down in a room full of rednecks and listen to a Wallaceite and agree to support him, I would have said you were crazy. 1989New Republic 13 Nov. 4/1 A good, mean, Wallaceite cab driver... Some guy to sit there and say, ‘Awright, mac, what about these niggers?’ |