Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Influx of Newcomers...
...Yells. Many of Yazoo's kids, Morris says, objected to being sent to private segregated schools. The public schools had their traditions, not the least of which were athletic, and the influx of black players added measurably to the quality of Yazoo's teams. Black and white athletes even began exchanging soul slaps on the field. White cheerleaders picked up black musical cadences in their pep yells...
...visit, though not as exciting as envisioned by my mother, was a chance to mix with rural Southern whites, a group whose social order has been severely shaken in the past decade, and who are struggling to maintain their identity in the face of an influx of change from outside...
...have not been easy for the South; in some ways, they have almost amounted to a second Reconstruction. Conquered by the judicial and political might of the North, the South has seen its institutions revised, its voting rolls altered, its very existence as a culture threatened by an influx of carpetbaggers. The lawyers who brought civil rights cases to trial, the college students who came down to participate in sit-ins, the inexorable stream of Supreme Court decisions, all seem to have been parts of an occupation by outsiders sent down from Washington. (It is amazing that so many Northerners...
WASHINGTON-In Algonquin Peace City people are afraid. Mayday leaders are afraid that internal disputes may destroy the sense of community they are trying to build. They are afraid that the government may be trying to trap them in their campground. They are afraid of a massive influx of people looking for another Woodstock or a chance to trash...