George Wallace Segregation Speech

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In George Wallace’s Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 14, 1963, his goal was to persuade to the people of Alabama to choose him as Governor. First, he talks about how the state of Alabama has been blessed by God. He goes into detail about how they have natural resources and tremendous amount of industries. By him complimenting Alabama, saying it is one of they best states, those southerners start to believe that they truly live in a safe environment that he will keep growing and improving. In his speech I noticed that he bring up religion and how people should be in control and not the government. He talks about how the government is taking over the people and has become their God. He is trying to persuade the people of Alabama that if he is Governor, he will bring back God giving them freedom so that the government will stop being the master of the people and go back to being the servant of the people. Wallace wants dictatorship and communism gone so that Americans can get their freedom back. He represents himself as an equal giving man whose cause is to give society the freedom of by not aligning into one. To his opponents, he bashes on communism and states that the government does nothing but fear the people. He brings up Hitler and talks about the control and fear of dictatorship. Wallace wants the people of Alabama to understand that integration will be a conflict for society and that segregation will give them freedom of development. Wallace is Scapegoating when he says, “It is a government that claims to us that it is bountiful as it buys its power from us with the fruits of its rapaciousness of the wealth that free men before it have produced and builds on crumbling credit without responsibilities to the debtors, our children”.  He also uses Polarization when he divides segregation and himself with integration and the overpowering government.