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...concept of an idyllic South has, of course, been inflated and distorted by the three-M-Magnolia, Mammy, Mockingbird-school of Dixifiction. But the South is far more than a state of mind (though it is that too). Despite urban and industrial encroachment, it remains a largely rural land of spectacular beauty and prolific resources for recreation and sentient delight. The people who inhabit the region are physically as well as psychically bound close to its mountains and woods, lakes and streams and shores. They cherish its abundant yields and convivially share them. If life in the South seems...
...critical and still undecided fight was in Mississippi, which plans under a "unit rule" to cast all 30 votes for one candidate. The Magnolia state could well do Reagan in. Its 30 delegates and 30 alternates each cast half a vote, and the majority had been leaning toward Reagan. Yet the group has not yet polled itself, and soundings by reporters in recent weeks showed Reagan's margin narrowing...
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Though now described as a "magnolia made of steel," she once seemed to be all petals. The daughter of a Plains garage mechanic, she was a shy and quiet girl with a winning smile and virtually no sense of humor. Says her mother, Allie Smith, "I am surprised she can now get up in front of all those people and make speeches...
Warm Endorsements. As Carter tells it, the situation is as normal as grits in the morning or magnolia blossoms hi the spring. Says he: "I think the blacks just trust me to do what I say and run the Government in a competent way." That explanation is too simplistic. For one thing, Carter's fair treatment of blacks as Governor of Georgia won him warm endorsements from such revered blacks as Martin Luther King Sr. and Georgia's influential Congressman Andrew Young. His deputy campaign coordinator is Ben Brown, a Georgia state legislator with close ties to black...