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On this day in 1972, George Wallace was shot while campaigning in Laurel, Maryland.
Maybe it’s less than charitable to remember him this way, but as the Drive-By Truckers say in “The Three Great Alabama Icons,” it’s part of the “duality of that southern thing.”
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
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