Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style racist demagoguery. Mississippi's venomous little Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo stayed in power for more than three decades by such tactics as describing one opponent as "begotten in a nigger graveyard at midnight" or, in defending himself against charges of religious bigotry, by declaring himself in favor of "every damn Jew from Jesus Christ on down...
...Alabama's George Wallace was elected Governor in 1962 standing four-square on a platform against a state sales-tax increase. After he was elected, the legislature voted in favor of a tax hike, and House Speaker Albert Brewer visited the Governor to commiserate "because you'll have to veto it." Brewer later recalled: "He looked at me in silence for a moment and said, 'I'll just holler nigger and everybody will forget it.' And he did. And they did." In his 1963 inaugural speech, Wallace proclaimed: "Segregation now?segregation tomorrow?segregation forever." But on a November weekend...
...Louisiana's State Representative Risley Claiborne ("Pappy") Triche was a legislative floor leader in the fight against school desegregation in the 1960s. But in 1972, speaking in favor of two bills aimed at protecting racial minorities from job discrimination, he acknowledged that some people might think, " 'Listen to that segregationist. Isn't that the guy who offered all the segregation bills in 1960 and fought the battle to preserve segregation in our public school system?' The only reply I can make to that, gentlemen, is that yes, that occurred. At that time in the state of development of the history...
...white Southern votes are now cast to block antibusing amendments backed by Michigan and Massachusetts Congressmen. Most of the South's congressional Democrats point with particular pride to the fact that on the 1975 roll call for a seven-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, their vote in favor was 52 to 26 in the House and 9 to 6 in the Senate. Southern Republicans, on the other hand, opposed extension by 17 to 10 in the House and 4 to 2 in the Senate...
...rise of the industrial South has been dependent on several key factors. Federal tax and spending policies, which generally favor less-developed areas, have persistently drained wealth from the Northeast and Midwest and diverted it to the Southern states. A recent study by the National Journal, an independent publication that analyzes federal policies, found that in fiscal 1975 the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania received $10 billion less from various Government spending programs than they paid out in taxes. The eleven states of the old Confederacy came out $8.7 billion ahead...