Tim Walz Is the Next George Wallace

If you ever listened to the Lynyrd Skynyrd song “Sweet Home Alabama,” there’s a line that may come readily to mind whether you know what it means or not. It’s where the band sings, “In Birmingham they love the governor.” 

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The governor in question was segregationist Democrat George Wallace, who truly was a commanding presence in Alabama politics at the time. Band members have said that line about Wallace was there to point out the obvious, that Wallace was loved by many in the state, but also to draw a distinction between Wallace and Alabama’s larger southern culture. The point was that Wallace’s Alabama and actual Alabama culture were not one and the same. 

Wallace served four terms as governor of the