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When he ran for governor once again in 1956, McLemore finished fifth with 48,188 votes (5.9 percent)<ref name=electionstats/> in the contest dominated by Earl Long, who carried sixty-two of the state's sixty-four parishes in Long's last return to the governor's office. In that race, Leander Perez and outgoing Governor Robert Kennon supported not McLemore but the fourth-placed candidate, [[Fred Preaus]] of Farmerville in Union Parish, a former highway director in the Kennon administration. In invoking the racial issue, McLemore accused Long of having "encouraged" the registration of [[African-American]] voters who were likely to support Long-backed candidates in the Democratic primaries.<ref name=perez/> In his second gubernatorial bid, McLemore ran with J. B. Alexander as his candidate for lieutenant governor.<ref>''Minden Press,'' January 16, 1956, p. 10.</ref>​

When he ran for governor once again in 1956, McLemore finished fifth with 48,188 votes (5.9 percent)<ref name=electionstats/> in the contest dominated by Earl Long, who carried sixty-two of the state's sixty-four parishes in Long's last return to the governor's office. In that race, Leander Perez and outgoing Governor Robert Kennon supported not McLemore but the fourth-placed candidate, [[Fred Preaus]] of Farmerville in Union Parish, a former highway director in the Kennon administration. In invoking the racial issue, McLemore accused Long of having "encouraged" the registration of [[African-American]] voters who were likely to support Long-backed candidates in the Democratic primaries.<ref name=perez/> In his second gubernatorial bid, McLemore ran with J. B. Alexander as his candidate for lieutenant governor.<ref>''Minden Press,'' January 16, 1956, p. 10.</ref>​

Similarly, McLemore claimed that Kennon, whom he had supported in the 1952 runoff election against Spaht, had done too little in office as governor to defend segregation but was on that issue "like an ostrich with his head buried in the sand."<ref name=segregation>"McLemore outlines plan on segregation", ''Minden Herald,'' December 22, 1955.</ref> McLemore said that he would if elected call a conference of other southern governors to develop a regional strategy to defend segregation.<ref name=segregation/> As the campaign wound down, McLemore said that desegregation would lead to miscegenation, and he further claimed that the [[NAACP]] had been infiltrated by [[Communism|communists]]. The NAACP, he said, was a "minority communistic-inspired group." A vote for McLemore, he claimed, would be "an escape from the integration vice that is closing on us from both outside and within."<ref>''Minden Herald'', January 10, 1956, p. 2.</ref> He urged voters to rally to his cause and the "South's way of life."<ref>''Minden Herald'' and ''Webster Signal'', January 12, 1956, p. 2.</ref>​

Similarly, McLemore claimed that Kennon, whom he had supported in the 1952 runoff election against Spaht, had done too little in office as governor to defend segregation but was on that issue "like an ostrich with his head buried in the sand."<ref name=segregation>"McLemore outlines plan on segregation", ''Minden Herald,'' December 22, 1955.</ref> McLemore said that he would if elected call a conference of other southern governors to develop a regional strategy to defend segregation.<ref name=segregation/> As the campaign wound down, McLemore said that desegregation would lead to miscegenation, and he further claimed that the [[NAACP]] had been infiltrated by [[Communism|communists]]. The NAACP, he said, was a "minority communistic-inspired group." A vote for McLemore, he claimed, would be "an escape from the integration vice that is closing on us from both outside and within."<ref>''Minden Herald,'' January 10, 1956, p. 2.</ref> He urged voters to rally to his cause and the "South's way of life."<ref>''Minden Herald'' and ''Webster Signal,'' January 12, 1956, p. 2.</ref>​

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