National Affairs: Real Democrat

Last week’s would-be political Lazarus: South Carolina’s Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, entombed as the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, who seemed willing to rise again. In Rock Hill, S.C., Thurmond cried out for a “real Democrat” (a term he deems almost exclusive to himself) to take over the state’s party leadership and be ready to act “independently” in 1960.