Word: mason-dixon
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Democratic and Republican maneuvers in the South may mark the beginning of a "reconstruction" of the two-party system below the Mason-Dixon line, according to V. O. Key, Jr., professor of Government...
...South had never seen anything like it. The Republican candidate for President, traditionally a figure who leaves the South to the Democrats, flew across the Mason-Dixon Line, winged over the cotton and tobacco lands of four states, dropped into six cities, spoke to 100.000 Southerners, showed himself to half a million...
...York, 38 hours and 3,595 miles after he had left, few Republican professionals were ready to claim that he had chipped off any of the Solid South's electoral votes. But he had won thousands of individual votes, and was making plans for more campaigning below the Mason-Dixon Line. Ike has a fighting chance to carry Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Virginia. In other Southern states, he has about as much chance as a Democrat has in Vermont: hardly...
...great, grey-green, greasy (as Kipling called it) Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees," is sometimes called Africa's Mason-Dixon Line. Reason: it divides "Jim Crow" South Africa from the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, where "white-black partnership" is at least theoretically the rule...
...third and more novel possibility is being widely discussed south of the Mason-Dixon line. Several Southern states have adopted or are adopting laws which keep presidential candidates' names off the general election ballot. The citizens vote, instead, only for party electors, who will be free to cast their ballots for whomever they wish when the electoral college meets next December...