Well, you learn something new every day, as they say. TodayÂ’s lesson? Governor George Wallace, the segregationist who served three nonconsecutive terms as AlabamaÂ’s chief executive, was a Republican.
At least, so says MSNBC. Noting the 50-year anniversary of Wallace’s infamous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door,” in which the governor physically blocked two black students from entering the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes showed a photo of Wallace — identifiying him as “(R) Alabama.”