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hand, with his decisive southern wins in 1952 and 1956, the GOP believed they could form a new and potentially permanent coalition of businessmen, fiscal conservatives, and middle-class suburbanites in the South. Early in 1957, Meade Alcorn, a former state legislator from Connecticut and recently named chairman of the Republican National Committee, created a Southern Division, often called “Operation Dixie,” to expand the party in the South. The division’s director, I. Lee Potter, a real estate investor and state chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, embodied the attitude of young southern Republicans. Though he could be described as a moderate by southern standards, believing the rabid racism of Democrats damaged southern economic progress, he publicly declared “our party is for segregation” soon after taking charge of Operation Dixie. Revealing Republican priorities, Potter received the third highest budget of any special division of the national committee, behind only Young Republicans and the Women’s Division. His initial six-month budget was $20,000, which doubled by 1960.22
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