Saturday Data: Trumped

      I have a number of Google alerts, designed to let me know when a certain phrase or name pops up in the net. My own name, of course. and others, like

The wheelchair Wallace used after the attempt on his life.

George Wallace.
     In the last week of August and the first week of September, that alert has exploded, with many of the GW mentions comparing Donald Trump to George Wallace.

     So far as I can tell, it started on August 23rd with coverage of Trump's visit to Mobile. Politico made the connection:

Trump, Alabama and the ghost of George Wallace

The South rises for Trump, but only 20,000 of them.

     There were many others, including an editorial in the Oklahoman that compared the surprising appeal of Trump to George Wallace's runs.

While Trump has floated a candidacy trial balloon three times, this is his first official entry in the contest. In 1972, Wallace was making his third attempt (there would be a fourth). He won every county in the Florida primary. He won again in Maryland and Michigan, but an attempted assassination on May 15, 1972 left him unable to continue the race.

     And after the Trump comparisons came the look back at Wallace's divorce from Cornelia in light of Robert Bentley; impending divorce.
 

The clothes WALLACE was wearing, and the radio that called for help.

   Ask people a thousand miles away what is the first thing they think of when they hear the name Alabama, Wallace would surely be in the top few replies.
     Yet you would be hard pressed to find memorials to Wallace in Montgomery.      
     There's his grave, of course, and a portrait with those of all of the governors in the Capitol. 
     But no statue.   
     There  is one in the Capitol Building of his first wife, Lurleen, who was elected Governor when George was term limited,
     I'm sure George would like a statue, but be pleased with all of the mentions of his name in 2015.

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