Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Oscar Carr Jr., who left his prosperous Mississippi farm to head the office of development of the national Episcopal Church in New York: "The greatest thing the South can offer the nation is its religious and moral sense. Once Southerners can jump into the economic mainstream they will be more liberal than people in Connecticut...
Long considered the most racially reactionary state, Mississippi briefly flared in violence, then integrated with a speed that astonished even its neighbors. Governor Mills Godwin of Virginia spoke for more than his home state when he said, "The racial issue is largely behind us because Virginians have a strong sense of law-and-order." Federal Judge James McMillan of Charlotte, N.C., echoed that North Carolinians would "litigate until hell freezes over, but when it freezes over, they'll go on about their business. The law is the law, and they respect...
Much of this expressiveness, like everything else in the region, has black influences. "I'm always behead or behind," complains a black cook in Georgia over the fact that she could never get caught up in her work. In a Mississippi court, recalls TIME'S Margaret Boeth, Southern-born, a black defendant explained his relationship to the common-law wife he had murdered. She was his "much-right" woman, he said. "I figured I had as much right to her as anybody else...
These new politicians wince in honest horror at old-style racist demagoguery. Mississippi's venomous little Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo stayed in power for more than three decades by such tactics as describing one opponent as "begotten in a nigger graveyard at midnight" or, in defending himself against charges of religious bigotry, by declaring himself in favor of "every damn Jew from Jesus Christ on down...
...Hatchett, 44, a fruit picker's son who won a place on the Florida Supreme Court. Last week Howard Lee, a black former mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., got 46% of the vote in a Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor ?a good showing, but not enough. In Mississippi, Fred Banks Jr., one of four blacks in the state legislature, says: "It may take 20 years to get a black elected to statewide office here...