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Segregation is almost as widespread to the north as to the south of the Mason-Dixon line. According to a 1968 study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 61% of all black students in the U.S., excluding Hawaii, still attend schools that are 95% or more black. Most of them, of course, are in the South, where 77% of all blacks at tend predominately black schools and only 18% go to schools with white majorities. But in the remaining 38 states and the District of Columbia, almost half of all blacks attend schools that are at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What About the North? | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...model Chevrolet? John Lindsay's national reputation alone would be a formidable asset in any other city. Add his good looks and an opposition party torn to ribbons, and it seems fair to venture Lindsay could win a walloping victory at the polls of any town north of the Mason-Dixon Line-and a few to the south as well...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: John Lindsay at the Crossroads | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

Violence is no stranger to Cairo (rhymes with Pharaoh), Ill., a decaying former riverboat port at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Below the Mason-Dixon Line and closer to Little Rock than Chicago in attitude as well as mileage, the capital of the state's "Little Egypt" section is a thoroughly Southern town. Its 4,000 white citizens are determined to maintain the local system of apartheid over the town's 4,000 blacks that has persisted since before the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: War in Little Egypt | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...with the Democrat-dominated state legislature, he pushed through a graduated income tax and obtained passage of one of the nation's toughest state antipollution laws. He also won repeal of the state's 306-year-old antimiscegenation law and signed the first statewide open-housing law below the Mason-Dixon line (which was across Maryland's northern border). The law was limited to dwellings of more than five units, but Agnew later said he might even favor "total open housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE COUNTERPUNCHER | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...carry a few Southern states in November, he is obviously not constructing his strategy around that hope. Dixie will indeed be fought over. If the election turns out to be as close as now appears likely, a few smallish states could be decisive-north or south of the Mason-Dixon line. But it seems unlikely that the South will go as a bloc for any one candidate. Wallace will almost certainly take a few states, with Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana his surest bets. Humphrey might collect Tennessee, Arkansas and possibly Georgia, states in which Wallace and Nixon are likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Coy, with Clout | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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