Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mentions the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, another populist group in the Southern tradition from which Carter has emerged. That group was a tenant and farmer organization that the Southern Baptists and Presbyterians formed many decades ago. Cox says they were "swimming against the stream of racism" and prejudice against poor whites long before that became a popular middle class Northern cause...
...little business. Southerners still pay condolence calls in the parlor, where they sit for hours with the bereaved, rarely mentioning the dead. At times, church services can be as flowery as a dime-store sympathy card-or as colorful as an Erskine Caldwell novel. Recently one backwoods Alabama dirt farmer was laid out in a dark suit, white shirt and tie. The old man had never before been so well dressed. His impressed relatives removed him from the casket, propped him against a wall and had him photographed for posterity. While elsewhere in the nation people are writing books...
Times are rough right now in Chatham, both for the farmers with their puny, drought-burned tobacco leaves and for the folks in the stores, which are hurting for customers. "Nowadays, you are lucky if you can farm, keep your place clean and pay your taxes," complains Frank Pierce, 56, an archetypal Southern farmer in bib overalls. He says that many farmers are turning to moonshine whisky to see them through. Even so, there is a basic optimism. "Folks can do all right," maintains Mayor Hairston...
...small tobacco farmer in Virginia, Fuqua could not afford to go to college, but he did read "books, books, books" on radio and finance. At age 21 he persuaded backers to start a new radio station in Augusta, Ga., for him to run. J.B. soon talked the owner of a bottling company into selling out for a share of future profits. Wheeling and dealing, he was able to buy his own radio station in 1949; by 1953 he had branched into TV. The profits allowed him to use his spare time to serve four terms in the Georgia legislature...
...down payment on 300 acres in Talbotton Ga. about 90 miles south of Atlanta, planted his mobile home on the ocher earth and moved in with his wife Judy, then 23 and one small daughter. Since then, he has become an exemplar of another type of Southerner: the small farmer who clings to the land even though he can barely scratch a living out of it Frix' s farm today has shrunk to about 100 acres ("We didn't have a choice; it was sell part or lose it all"); his family has grown to include a three...