Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even greater than pride in place is a strongly developed sense of family-not merely the nuclear one, but the broadsword virtues of the clan. This is partly because many Southern families have lived in the same territory for five or six generations, growing, spreading, developing deeper ties. To a largely rootless and mobile nation, children or grandchildren of the immigrant experience, this familial feeling seems foreign. Explains Spalding: "It is comforting for a Southerner, in a strange, hostile and wicked world, to know who he is, that someone will send his daughter a wedding present or come...
...choose to sit in the House chamber with white Southern friends rather than with Northern liberals or blacks. Others laugh about how some white Southern votes are now cast to block antibusing amendments backed by Michigan and Massachusetts Congressmen. Most of the South's congressional Democrats point with particular pride to the fact that on the 1975 roll call for a seven-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, their vote in favor was 52 to 26 in the House and 9 to 6 in the Senate. Southern Republicans, on the other hand, opposed extension...
White Southerners are now taking a great deal of pride in the region's rapid adjustment to the post-civil rights era. The fact is that every change was resisted, every improvement fought, every overture turned back. Though many Southerners were made uneasy by the oppressive pattern of Southern race relations, most did little or nothing to change it. Not even Jimmy Carter resigned from his church when it voted to exclude blacks. Without unrelenting pressure from blacks and the Federal Government, white Southerners would never have changed. Southern behavior has changed, but the hearts, for the most part...
...whose sole link to college is football. Ralph ("Shug") Jordan, who retired in 1975 after 25 years as head coach at Auburn University, describes the "adopted" alumni: "It goes back to the Depression down here, when most folks could not afford to go to college, but they could take pride in and link themselves to a Southern football team. So you would become known as an Auburn man or an Alabama man, and people would assume you went to school there. You bonded with a team, and it became part...
...students, the equation seems simple: by their football you shall know them. Cleo Thomas, Alabama's first black student-body president, says: "A national identity from football is all we have. If we had a losing season, we'd be nobody. We're gambling our pride and respect for the school on one thing-athletics." To participate in the quest for identity, students endure a struggle for out-of-town-game tickets that rivals a World Series. Lines form 20 hours before the ticket windows open. Patient under umbrellas, students will gladly wait out a long night...