Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They form penitents into groups of 25. And they install the buddy system: everyone who signs up gets the phone number of one other member, and pledges himself to check daily on his buddy's progress. Folkenberg gets smokers to repeat-in unison at meetings, and countless times a day-"I choose to give up smoking," as evidence that they are exercising their will power...
Whether or not that somehow farfetched ideal is ever achieved matters little to the region now. This New Reconstruction, unlike the older one, is itself a source of considerable self-satisfaction. Waged by the moderate business communities of the greater urban centers it offers a means to progress which the more-principle but less-monied Southern liberal forces have so far been unable to establish...
...This progress comes with a peak in the South's industrial revolution which did not actually begin until World War II. The rapid transformation of the South's agrarian economy the technological progress which constantly improves the industrial effort, and the economic mobility of the whole nation, repeatedly multiplies the power and the determination of Southern business interests...
...centers such as Nashville and Jackson, in the port cities of Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans, in the heavy industry areas at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Memphis and especially in Atlanta, are seizing control of the civic leadership. Their natural conservatism is tempered by the overwhelming drive for new progress: they constitute a force of moderatism...
...demands are points which these moderates, whether they would want it or not, are beginning to accept. They will no doubt continue to delay the toppling of their old world until the very last, but when finally they must choose between the next step in their program for Southern progress and the last of the ante-bellum mores they will likely pick the former...