Word: mcgill
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...rural South, McGill admits, has come along much more slowly. Coercion and overt oppression are still the rule in the rural Georgia which sent restaurant owner, axe-handle distributor, confused and frightened Lester Maddox to the statehouse in 1966. And the Wallace phenomenon, he concedes, is a very serious and dangerous malignancy. "Wallace speaks the new 'Magnolia Mouthwash.' He doesn't use the old words, just the new words, the code words," McGill explains...
Despite the threat of a possible Wallace sweep in the deep South this fall, McGill displays a degree of optmism and faith in the eventual efficacy of the political process that has become increasingly rare in discussions of the racial quagmire in the North...
...delighted to see the rise of this so-called Black Power," McGill claims. "It's a very healthy thing for the whole electorate...
...McGill is confident that the coalition of black voters and moderate middle class whites, which has served for 15 years to keep Atlanta's mayor's office out of the hands of the rednecks, will survive and eventually broaden its base into the countryside. "The pre-1962 and 1964 molds are already broken," he wrote recently. "In the cities, where most of the population is, the Negro voter is aggressive, organized and active...
...Whether McGill's New South will somehow escape the miasma of the Northern ghettos, or whether the tentative displays of good faith in Atlanta will harden into cynicism as bigotry yields to black economic stagnaton, remains to be seen. For now, McGill is still testy and hopeful...