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1958 Washington Post 4 Dec. c. 25/3 The hero of the motley crowd [of racial agitators]..delivered the main speech opening up with a snarling attack... ‘Chandler and Frank Clement are in a contest..to see which one can outnigger the other one.’

1966 New Statesman 25 Mar. 414/1 George Wallace first ran for governor of Alabama in 1958... He lost the election, but as the returns came in he made a vow. ‘No one’, he told his faithful followers, ‘is ever going to out-nigger me again’.

1976 Tribune 5 Sept. in R. L. McCaul Black Struggle for Public Schooling (1987) 89 It used to be, Southern politics was just ‘nigger’ politics—who could ‘outnigger’ the other.

1989 K. L. Hall Magic Mirror 324 [The Governor] made integration of the Little Rock schools a political football and, in his words, adopted the strategy of ‘outniggering’ his opponent.

1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation ii. 69 The defeat of the populist movement both nationwide and in the South in 1896 convinced many populist politicians that they could never compete with the Bourbons unless they ‘out-niggered’ them.