SELMA, Ala., Jan. 12—From the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Watergate seems as remote as the civil rights clash that took place at the bridge's end in 1965.

For here, as in many other parts of the Deep South, the talk about Watergate and the possible impeachment of President Nixon is subdued. The few who raise the subject dismiss It as little more than a Northern liberal plot —some even suggest it is a Communist inspired plot—to embarrass the President.

“I get the feeling that folks down here just want Watergate to blow away,” Representative. Walter Flowers, an Alabama Democrat, said one day this week as he sat in his district office, just around the corner from the Edmund Pettus Bridge where. the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Ring Jr. and his followers were abruptly halted by officers as they attempted to march to Montgomery.

Constituents Drop By

Thirty or more constituents had dropped by the Congressman's, office that afternoon. Most of them had come to talk about their problems —veterans pensions, inability to get enough fuel for their farm machines, and Social Security benefits. No one mentioned Watergate or impeachment.