Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible answer: "Big John" carries weight in the corporate world as well as the South and Midwest. Potential fundraisers, applicants and even recruiters west of the Mississippi might well cotton to old Johnnie Harvard a bit more, if old Johnnie Connally gives them the word...
When Finch mounts the speakers platform, the populist ring in his voice is as clear as a bed. He first recounts his poor childhood on his daddy's farm and eulogizes the honesty and integrity of hard work. Then he urges all the "working men and women" of Mississippi to unite to fight for more and better-paying jobs and to help create a "better, fairer" Mississippi for all. The elocution is egregious, but the 'underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious...
...whereas past Mississippi leaders helped forge an alliance between the small landed proprietors and the amorphous bourgeoisie, the sinews of Cliff Finch's power steam from a different coalition of two fairly distinct socio-economic classes-the blue-collar laborers living in the industrial centers of the state and the tenacious Mississippi farmers who eke out subsistence wages on their 100 or so acres of soil. This time the middle-class--the Chamber of Commerce set--has been left out in the cold...
...bucolic, articulate while Finch was incoherent, organized while Finch was chaotic, and cerebral while Finch relied on good ol' home-grown common sense. Carmichael--a rich Volkswagen dealer--was the sweetheart of the more intelligent and wealthier 'Mississippians. In the election he carried Jackson, some coastal districts and the Mississippi Delta where plantations still abound and wealth and income disparities are astoundingly great. But the "working men" of Mississippi united. The establishment was overthrown. The "people" had their...
...appearance of a man like Finch on the horizon of Southern politics marks an important shift in emphasis from status to class concerns in the South, or at least Mississippi. The poor Mississippi whites rallying behind Finch are opposing poor blacks less as a competing status group and are fusing with them to form a new class alliance. This development has profound implications in light of the fact that Finch and his cohorts are in the process of creating an imposing and powerful political machine. Finch has fired great numbers of high-ranking state officials and replaced them with...