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The federal government, motivated by Cold War-era concerns about its global image, intervened against segregationist Southern states.

By 1972, then President-Nixon’s people were worried about the prospect of segregationist former Alabama governor George Wallace drawing votes from Nixon as the potential nominee of the AIP, the right-wing American Independent Party.

While serving two terms in the state Senate, he avoided clashes with segregationists - including many in the Democratic party.

Among the flash points driving Christians into Republican arms were federal court rulings supporting and IRS policy to deny tax exemptions to segregationist schools.

Four years after Kennedy’s assassination, segregationist George C. Wallace was, like Trump, shot during a campaign appearance.