Word: mason-dixon
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...While instructing a grand jury at Columbia, S.C., Circuit Judge J. Henry Johnson declared: "I am ... thoroughly convinced that no man who lives north of the Mason-Dixon line, be he Democrat or Republican, is a genuine friend of the South...
...group from below the Mason-Dixon Line hung a Confederate flag from the A-42 window of Louis B. Du Pree '50, who hails from Greenville, North Carolina. According to Du Pree, the flag was almost unnoticed, for it is similar to the Deacon's House emblem...
...Harvard University's football team started a Negro tackle, quiet, 6 ft. 4 in. Chester Pierce, in its game with the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. It was one of the very few times a Negro had played against a Southern university on a field south of the Mason-Dixon line. Many in the crowd of 24,000 Southerners waved flags of the Confederacy; many of them also applauded Harvard's Pierce for the hard game he played while his team took a 47-0 walloping...
Geographically, Virginia, northernmost of the Confederate states, lies about the middle of the Atlantic seaboard. But its traditions, the record of the numerous and illustrious leaders it has given the nation, and its reverence for the gentility, charm, and grace that characterize life below the Mason-Dixon line, make Virginia one of the most "southern" of all states. Its attitude toward racial segregation stems almost inevitably from the brutality and humiliation of the Reconstruction era, an era whose traces have not even yet entirely passed away...
...oppressive heat of Saturday continued on through yesterday afternoon. It may prove valuable conditioning for the forthcoming jaunt across the Mason-Dixon line...