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...College must also be certain that the monument does not glorify the South. The Civil War was primarily a political and economic struggle. But the Confederacy, Dixie, and the Stars and Bars have all become symbols of hate. In Alabama, the state capitol is topped by a confederate flag. It wasn't placed there during reconstruction, but during the battle over desegregation...
Honoring the Confederacy would open up the wounds of the 1960's, not the 1860's. Few people remain bitter over theCivil War. But memories of Alabama police chiefs, water cannons, and attack dogs still linger in the minds of millions of Americans. Most Americans can still remember the debate over the Civil Rights Act. They remember the words to "We Shall Overcome" and the day Martin Luther King was gunned down in Memphis...
...scent of a blowout was in the air. In North Carolina, Missouri and Oklahoma, however, Dole still seemed to have a chance. Bush strategists added a modest $50,000 for more ads in those states to their already swollen TV budget of $1.8 million. They canceled live appearances in Alabama and Louisiana in favor of four more stops in Missouri, where the Senator from next-door Kansas is popular...
...young black voters reversed a historic pattern and turned out in greater numbers than young whites. When Jackson went to visit Alabama's Senator Howell Heflin on the Bork nomination, Heflin said he did not want to do anything to discourage the "new voters," and thus opposed Bork. Jackson, solemn in the meeting, chuckles afterward at the circumlocution: "The 'new votuhs'! Don't you just love it?" But it was more than black voters who stood in Bork's way. The combination that defeated him -- minorities, women's groups, civil liberties activists -- looked like the rainbow coalition...
...artfully tailored campaign that garnered the support of Hispanics in South Texas and Frost Belt refugees in the condo canyons of South Florida did not transform Dukakis into a win-Dixie Democrat. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor left few footprints in the red clay of the traditional South; in Alabama and Mississippi, he won less than 10% of the vote. "Dukakis gained a half step on everyone else this week," said Democratic Pollster Peter Hart. "But he still has a lot of work to do. He has to get to working-class Democrats, and to do that he needs an economic...