Word: egerton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Industrialization and the growth of cities have already brought attendant blight: air pollution, traffic congestion, billboarded highways and garish fast-food enterprises. To Southern Journalist John Egerton (The Americanization of Dixie), "The modern, acquisitive, urban, industrial, post-segregationist, on-the-make South, its vices nationalized, its virtues evaporating if not already dissipated, is coming back with a bounce in its step, like a new salesman on the route, eager to please, intent on making...
...such optimistic reports and the South's positive record on compliance -notwithstanding the boll weevil's pace in many districts-have obfuscated some problems that the South still faces. As Journalist John Egerton writes in a report for the Southern Regional Council: "The South's report card in school desegregation is better than the North's but by no means outstanding. School desegregation in the South is in the main an unfinished task...