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peculiar to defend something I have always taken for granted. ... Who, a few years ago, would have thought it possible to have reached the point ... where it is necessary to defend the human right to a choice? ... I fear that the state Democratic Party is unwittingly being used as a tool for the same goals of the national party. ... Today the majority of whites in this state are not one-party Democrats but true [[Independent voter|independents]] - and they are glad that there is the beginning of a second party - so that they can have a real choice.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)", ''The Journal of Mississippi History'' XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, p. 249.</ref></blockquote>
peculiar to defend something I have always taken for granted. ... Who, a few years ago, would have thought it possible to have reached the point ... where it is necessary to defend the human right to a choice? ... I fear that the state Democratic Party is unwittingly being used as a tool for the same goals of the national party. ... Today the majority of whites in this state are not one-party Democrats but true [[Independent voter|independents]] - and they are glad that there is the beginning of a second party - so that they can have a real choice.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)", ''The Journal of Mississippi History'' XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, p. 249.</ref></blockquote>
===1966-1972===
Carmichael ran unsuccessfully for the Mississippi State Senate in both 1966 and 1967, the latter on the statewide Republican ticket headed for a second time by Rubel Phillips. In 1971, Carmichael considered a race for lieutenant governor, but Republicans that year fielded no statewide candidates as the [[Democrat|Democrat]] William Lowe "Bill" Waller Sr. (1926–2011), defeated the [[African-American]] [[Independent voter|Independent]] Charles Evers (born 1922), a [[civil rights]] activist, brother of the slain Medgar Evers (1925-1963), and the mayor of Fayette, in the gubernatorial [[general election]].<ref name=cdanielson/>
Carmichael ran unsuccessfully for the Mississippi State Senate in both 1966 and 1967, the latter on the statewide Republican ticket headed for a second time by Rubel Phillips. In 1971, Carmichael considered a race for lieutenant governor, but Republicans that year fielded no statewide candidates as the [[Democrat|Democrat]] William Lowe "Bill" Waller Sr. (1926–2011), defeated the [[African-American]] [[Independent voter|Independent]] Charles Evers (born 1922), a [[civil rights]] activist, brother of the slain Medgar Evers (1925-1963), and the mayor of Fayette, in the gubernatorial [[general election]].<ref name=cdanielson/>