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Using Evidence to Support a Claim
What evidence does Wallace use to support his claim that Alabama has the right to continue policies of racial segregation?

He refers to the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which declared the segregation of schools for Black and White students was unconstitutional.
He uses the Jim Crow laws, which established racial segregation of schools, restaurants, bathrooms, water fountains, and other public places.
He refers to the freedom to continue racial segregation based on the states’ rights in the US Constitution.
He quotes Rudyard Kipling, who said the Southland has the greatest fighting breed of man in all the world.

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Answer: He refers to the freedom to continue racial segregation based on the states’ rights in the US Constitution.

Explanation: Wallace’s defense of segregation rested on appeals to states’ rights and federalism — arguing that Alabama (and other states) had the constitutional authority to set their own policies. He did not use Brown v. Board (which outlawed school segregation) as support, nor is a Rudyard Kipling quote relevant; while Jim Crow laws were the existing practice, his primary justificatory evidence was the states’-rights argument.