Word: rednecked
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...departure, that some of the worst civil rights violence in months broke out. About 400 Negroes started to march from the Zion Methodist Church to the town jail, protesting the arrest of a fellow worker. Waiting outside the church were eight Marion cops, 50 state troopers, a bunch of redneck bums-and Selma's Sheriff Clark, in civilian clothes but carrying a billy club...
...Tris election marked the consumation of the Republican National Committee's Southern strategy. Its implicit racist appeal attracted significant support only in redneck rural areas of the South," the statement said...
...Racial guilt phobia is the silliest concept since original sin. Southerners abuse Negroes because we all have to have someone to look down on, and for a redneck with no hound-dog, that ain't easy...
...This is war!" cried Cundiff. "Wallace is nothing but an Alabama redneck without an ounce of common sense." Denouncing Wallace's rally, which was going on just four blocks away, Cundiff urged: "Why don't we see if some of us can't get in there?" Out into the warm night poured the Negroes, with Gloria Richardson in the lead...
...When he talks like that, Wallace sounds like an ordinary Alabama redneck. But he is no such thing-and the more's the pity, since he has become an international symbol of the demagogic segregationist in the Southern region of the U.S. Wallace is in fact a smart, capable lawyer who has in many ways been a first-rate Governor. Since he took office last January, he has pushed through sizable raises in teachers' salaries, begun a big school-construction program, successfully sponsored a $100 million bond issue for roads, cut his own executive department budget by better...