He pleaded with his audience to expend more energy registering voters—because who wins would “determine whether or not this America will be unified, or, if I lose the election, whether Americans might be separated Black from white, Jew from Christian, North from South, rural from urban; whether this nation—” The press hardly heard the rest. “There were only looks of disbelief as the words ‘black from white…’ sank in,” Witcover and Germond observed. “Jimmy Carter was
