"The Democrats need to win by forging biracial coalitions," Mr. From said.

But the Arkansas Governor built this biracial coalition during a time of intense racial tension in this country.

They may have failed to appreciate the significance of Mr. Clinton's remarkable biracial coalition.

It is a biracial coalition similar to ones found in only a handful of other cities, notably Atlanta.

During his first term, Langan sought to create a biracial coalition of citizens to discuss Mobile's racial problems.

Atlanta's black politicians are already adept in the art essential to break the ceiling: building biracial coalitions.

The collapse of the biracial Republican coalition was related to a broader struggle, over marriage and the legislature's attempt to ban miscegenation.

Such biracial coalitions had also occurred in other states across the South, threatening white Democratic control of state legislatures.

Mr. Daley's support came almost entirely from whites, so he faces the task of putting together a biracial coalition.

A biracial populist coalition achieves power in Virginia (briefly).