As head of New Hampshire's archconservative Union Leader, Nackey Scripps Loeb built a network of conservative followers and took on the Republican establishment
and in a magazine published by the White Citizens’ Council, a white supremacist group that arose in response to theIt’s unclear what Nackey thought at the time about the response to her cartoon, but there’sthat William Loeb saw supporting segregationists as a strategic move to drive moderates out of the Republican Party. In a 1961 letter to an acquaintance in the South, he suggested that the GOP “become the white man’s party.
The rise of cable television also helped Nackey’s profile grow. She didn’t relish the spotlight, but during election years, she became a regular on C-SPAN and other major networks. After each appearance, the’s circulation department would receive a flurry of subscription requests from across the country. Many out-of-state readers also corresponded directly with Nackey, swapping both ideas and gifts. They sent her fresh pecans, sourwood honey and Vidalia onions.
To Nackey Scripps Loeb, George H.W. Bush—shown here with her at a 1985 ceremony honoring her late husband—represented everything she didn’t want the GOP to become: too moderate, too global, too soft. | Cynthia Johnson/Getty Images As the 1992 election cycle approached, Nackey began encouraging Buchanan to run. “We are either going to stand up and fight to take back our country,” she wrote to him in a letter, “or we will sit back and let the heathens take over.”
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