Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing could be finer than to drive in North Carolina when the roadsides are gaudy with black-eyed Susans, wildflowers and dogwoods. Such spectacles have become more common during the past five years because of a beautification program launched by the state. The area in bloom has exploded from twelve acres in 1985 to about 1,200 now. But money problems may keep the program from blossoming much more...
...approach is effective. Only an educational campaign to encourage addicts to sterilize needles with bleach has federal funding. And that $50 million program, a minuscule part of the $2.6 billion annual federal AIDS budget, was nearly cut this year at the behest of conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina...
...fact, some blacks even contemplate a return to neighborhood schools. Hal Sieber, executive editor of the Carolina Peacemaker, a black newspaper, calls it a desire for "equal but separate" communities, a twist on the old doctrine of segregation. Sadly, the cycle of division, passed from parent to child, endures, as last winter's tempest at prestigious Page High School showed. A student newspaper poll on race relations prompted an outcry from black students, who complained about inadequate representation on the cheerleading squad and in advanced classes, among other things. Even a state championship basketball team drew fire...
...city's jobless rate is only 3.4%, the unemployment rate for blacks is about three times as high as it is for whites. "It's still a legacy of race, but it's written about more in terms of class," says Robert Davis, a sociology professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University...
...however, explosions will occur closer to home. Though Chapman's party says it plans no purges, it will systematically install inerrantists as moderates retire. The seminary in North Carolina has already been torn apart over this effort, and the one in Kentucky will doubtless be next. Meanwhile, desperate anti-Fundamentalis ts are labeling the rival force as power mad and "demonic." A schism does not appear imminent, but as the conflict moves to the state and local level, anti-Fundamentalists may carry out a de facto split, diverting money from the national denomination into their own causes...