Even though Wallace, like Chris Matthews, was a Democrat?

Via RCP:

“You know, I think that people that don’t recognize the code about welfare and food stamps are really being dishonest. And I think if you look at our history from Ronald Reagan, who would talk about the Young Buck in the line using food stamps to buy t-bone steaks, or certainly Wallace, George Wallace, or David Duke. They all talked about welfare. Welfare has been a classic tool to pry apart working class whites from working class blacks,” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said during Tuesday’s coverage of the GOP convention in Tampa.”