Andrews’s candidacy attracted not only segregationists from the white Citizens’ Councils of the Deep South but also other critics of what they called collectivism. In truth, the causes were hard to distinguish below the Mason-Dixon Line. Those who were interested were largely businessmen and professionals who considered themselves “the forgotten white majority . . . fighting for their life and liberty” against “the Socialistic trend,” in the words of Virginia’s J. Addison Hagan. He complained that leaders of both major parties had “been playing to the minorities such as Farmers, Unions,
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