Correction

Washington Monthly, Nov, 1995

Due to a typesetting error in our October issue, the last line was dropped from Taylor Branch's book review on page 51. Here is the last paragraph of his piece in its entirety: "Nixon knew that Wallace voters were becoming natural Republicans. With revenue sharing--his version of today's block grants--Nixon moved from Lincoln Republicanism toward a posture compatible with Wallace's version of states' rights.

From his sickbed, Wallace watched the white South follow the path he had marked toward an anti-government ideology that the Republican party adopted. For more than a century, his Democrats had straddled a core identity that upheld both the common people and the segregated South. Now segregation was being lost, formally, and at the same time Wallace's racial alchemy was eating away at the party's distinctive bond with ordinary citizens. Today Wallace's legacy is clear. He enticed the children of FDR Democrats to think of government not as savior, refuge, compact of fellow citizens--or even as their problem--but as the enemy. As an old populist Democrat who still loves to disdain bigshots for `sipping their martinis with their little fingers up in the air,' Wallace nurses some misgivings. Carter quotes his brooding farewell from office: `I hope the rich and powerful don't take over now.'"