Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staffers who worked on this week's special issue come from the eleven states of the old Confederacy, but many have ties to the region. Senior Writer Michael Demarest scouted through family recipes written in the spidery handwriting of New Orleans ancestors for his story on Southern cuisine. Associate Editor Spencer Davidson visited the Deep South for the first time since serving as Atlanta bureau chief in the 1960s-and returned North startled at the changes in Birmingham. Washington Correspondent Simmons Fentress, who did much of the political reporting, speaks with a pronounced North Carolina drawl, but a Mississippi...
...itself in a different light, the South has replaced self-righteous demagoguery with genuine pride. The South has always been proud of its ways despite, perhaps even because of, the derision it suffered for its shortcomings. But the new Southern pride is based on the steady progress the region has made toward overcoming its problems while retaining its special identity...
Integration, Social Security, Medicare, investments by foreign companies, welfare, farm subsidies and wildlife protection have taken place in the North, South, East and West. These are many of the things that have transformed this large country. The change cannot be assigned to only one region-the South...
Many people think that this is symbolic of what is happening across the South. But, in fact, the changes that are transforming the eleven states of the old Confederacy are far more basic and substantial. In what had long been the nation's poorest, most backward-looking region, business booms and economic, social and political opportunities abound. Cities thrust ever outward and upward. Racial integration proceeds with surprising smoothness. And a Georgian wins the Democratic presidential nomination, the Deep South's first major-party candidate for the presidency in 128 years. Small wonder that the rest of the country...
...eight-county region of eastern South Dakota that is the center of the livestock business, fully 75% of the herd has already been sold off. Although cattlemen have been losing as much as $150 on every head, cash receipts so far have postponed widespread financial disaster. But the three-year dry spell, which has also affected large areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Michigan, Nebraska and Iowa (TIME, July 26), is now pushing ranchers to the end of their credit lines. Leland Sivertsen, for example, has been trying, without much luck, to get emergency money from the Farmers Home Administration...