Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has always been class struggle in the South, submerged by racism (just as, in the North, working class discontent has been diffused largely by ethnic differences that separate the mass of immigrants who fueled industrial development). Northern working class people escaped into privatism and a waxing standard of living; white Southerners, living in a perpetually underdeveloped region, had no such luxury--aside from racist rage, they escaped into tradition and religion. Fundamentals millenarian cults and hysterical revival meetings in one way, opened outlets for the frustration of feeling dumb and oppressed...
...decision to continue the long-planned, 23-day China tour by former U.S. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, in Chinese eyes a symbol of American toughness toward the Soviet Union. Last week, midway through his 7,250-mile itinerary, the ex-Secretary traveled to distant provinces along China's northern and western frontiers, including Tibet, which no American is known to have visited in 26 years. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, one of three U.S. journalists on tour with Schlesinger, filed this account of the journey...
...Southern tradition from which Carter has emerged. That group was a tenant and farmer organization that the Southern Baptists and Presbyterians formed many decades ago. Cox says they were "swimming against the stream of racism" and prejudice against poor whites long before that became a popular middle class Northern cause...
Careyleah MacLeod, who attended Eastern Nazarene College, says that she was raised in a Northern Baptist church that taught conversion, but that she had a blinding born again type of experience in her early twenties, through the use of drugs (LSD). At that time, the "cobwebs" were cleared from her head, and her thinking and perception became clearer. This experience represented to her a culmination of spiritual quests. She recognized the beginning of a new lifestyle, which is more in tune with the way she wants to live and interact with others...
...sort of pessimistic about racial problems. We're headed in the direction of Northern race relations where the blacks are going to be ghettoized and where you have this enormous difference in the schools between the whites from the suburbs and the blacks from the ghetto...