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Thread ID: 16468 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-01-28
2005-01-28 08:42 | User Profile
Perhaps I shouldn't be posting personal information about Fade's identity, especially seeing as how thoroughly I condemned Raina, over at The Phora, for having apparently revealed political opinions penned by AntiYuppie to colleagues of his. Upon further reflection, however, it occurred to me that Fade has made himself persona non grata by betraying all his guests over at The Phora, and since he never confided in me, and I managed to correctly guess his identity based primarily on some comments he made in his farewell message, which pertained to his grandfather having had a career in politics, getting shot, and having to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, I decided there was nothing wrong with mentioning this mildly interesting bit of truth about Fade's true identity.
Let's see, he has a grandfather in politics, who got shot and had to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair? And Fade's from Alabama? Gee, now who could THAT be?
So, collectors of irrelevant trivia on minor characters of no real significance, in case you were wondering, "Fade the Buther"/Hunter Wallace is the grandson of Gov. George Corely Wallace (under who's gubenatorial administration I was born, back in Selma), who served in office for most of the years from 1963-1987. He was the American Independent Party nominee for President in 1968, and received 13.5% of the vote, as well as 46 electoral votes (45 from the five states he carried, i.e. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana & Arkansas, plus one renegade Nixon elector from OKlahoma). He was also LBJ's sole challenger for the 1964 Democratic nomination, as well a serious contender for the 1972 Democratic nomination (he almost certainly would have run as an American Independent again that year, had he not been shot while campaigning in Maryland). Having read two extensive, book-length biographies on Gov. Wallace, I could probably go on in this vein for some time, but most of you probably know all about him already, and for those who don't, you probably get the general idea.
The single most salient characteristic in the career of Gov. Wallace, however, is that in his final campaign for Governor of Alabama, in 1982, he repudiated all his previous segregationist, White supremacist views. The apple doesn't appear to have fallen all that enormously far from the tree....