It was Hunter’s galluses that captured Marshall’s eye. Red galluses. Like the ones Herman Talmadge of Georgia wore to honor his father, the former governor Eugene Talmadge. Four years earlier, Herman had honored his father’s racial prejudices as well. In his own gubernatorial campaign Herman made fame out of hate with his signal, one-word stump speeches. He’d stand on a stage, tug on his red suspenders, and shout “Nigger!” over and over until he’d whipped the crowd into a frenzy. “You tell ’em, Hummon,” his redneck constituents would holler back, their tobacco juice spattering their “red
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