Word: basse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bass and DeVries do not sketch the background quite that way. Not that they don't agree; they're just more interested in how the foregoing portrait of Southern politics has shattered since the post-war ascendance of economic development and black equality. Southern politics rested, until the last few years, on a consensus of sorts between upper and lower class whites: most white political leaders did nothing to eradicate the inefficient small holdings of poor white farmers, nor did they try to diminish the privileges of poor whites in general versus blacks. For their part, the mass of Southern...
Starting in about 1948 that began to change. The progress took place mainly through the efforts of Southern blacks allied with Northern liberals and labor unions. The story gets complicated here, Bass and DeVries say, because the pressure exerted on behalf of racial equality changed major and minor features of politics very quickly. First, the Southern racists were read out of the National Democratic party at Truman's convention, and formed their own National States Rights Party. The civil rights movement won crucial successes after that, chief among them the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which insured...
...phenomenon of rising Republicanism differed from state to state, Bass and DeVries point out: in Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana there is nothing approaching a viable statewide Republican party; South Carolina and Texas have strong Republican state organizations, while the party in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia has been able to build on a nucleus of "mountain Republicans," whose loyalty stems from their support of freedom for the slaves (they didn't own any) and the Union during the Civil War. In these latter places, the Republican party has, in large measure, kept its traditional stance as a center-right group...
Most politicians cultivate an appearance of ordinariness in the belief that doing so wins elections. Carter can play that game too, especially when he is at home in Plains, pitching softball, draining ponds and filleting bass. But he is hardly ordinary. He is complex, a sometimes lonely and introspective man who has spent much of his life attempting to balance contending forces: parents who were political opposites, the Old South and the New, the various factions of the Democratic Party...
...country music, love. Honkin' is the word for having a good time. In the olden days the distinctive instrumental sound of honky-tonk was tinny guitar and pianoplunk. Today the new rockabilly is a country-and-western/rhythm-and-blues mix, and its dominant sound is a heavily thudding rock bass...