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Hominy & Homilies. Last week, at the Southern Governors' annual conference at Asheville, N.C., Maddox launched into archaic harangues against federal guidelines to desegregate schools, denounced the war on poverty ("It's breeding a generation of bums"), sneered at his fellow Governors for bowing to the "King" in Washington. He also voted down an ambitious long-term program for complete integration of the South's Negro colleges. Maddox's peers either snubbed him or ignored him, and an Atlanta Constitution cartoon showed the Governor returning from the meeting with a black...
...Maddox's antics have endeared him more than ever to his supporters in the red clay counties he calls "Maddox country." But the diet of hominy and homilies from the Governor's office is gritting city dwellers' teeth. "I'm afraid," sighs an Atlanta official, "we are in for four years of triviality...
...Maddox, who is neither a public servant, nor an executive, nor an administrator does not conform to ideological standards. His views have always related to himself, his family, and his restaurant rather than to government. He has never understood the legislative functions of the governor, much less performed them in any fashion, liberal or conservative. He is now what he was as a campaigner and as a restaurant owner: a little man who shakes hands with the small-time businessman and the white worker. He delivers a lot more of those flat and amateurish speeches then he did before becoming...
...Maddox is totally oblivious to legislative matters, which are far too complex for his blood. In his Tulsa speech, he remarked, "Take the legislation if you choose, but as for me, and my family, give us God, liberty and America...
...Maddox's current reactionary mood is probably the result of his responsibilities becoming to complicated. It is not a coincidence that his segregationist praise to Lowndes Country came one day after a meeting with members of a three-man team from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. When he is forced into this kind of administrative responsibility detracts from his fun-time with the people, then he is likely to express a few of his old-time slogans in frustration. It does not mean any policy changes, for Maddox does not execute any policies. The primary result...