Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patriotism may be out of favor nowadays in much of America, but it flourishes in the South. Rusk finds that "patriotism is not just jingoism down here. It is affection for the country and its values." To the Southern spirit, that affection includes a deep, often uncritical respect for the military. With good reason-the South receives income from military establishments scattered throughout its states; there are 15 major bases in Georgia alone. But income certainly cannot account for the exuberant displays of flags, the military spirit at football stadiums, the parades of veterans in freshly pressed uniforms. The military...
...mixture of simple blood ties and rooted soil, of patriotic and military zeal, has risen a quality that many Northerners cannot find credible: a respect for law. It is this more than Christian principle or force of arms that has brought the South into contemporary life...
...behind us because Virginians have a strong sense of law-and-order." Federal Judge James McMillan of Charlotte, N.C., echoed that North Carolinians would "litigate until hell freezes over, but when it freezes over, they'll go on about their business. The law is the law, and they respect...
...important political event of his lifetime. Spurred through a divided Congress by President Lyndon Johnson of Texas, the act, under a complex voter-participation formula, gave federal authorities the power to supervise, in most Southern states, "any voting qualifications, or prerequisites to voting, or standard, practices of procedure with respect to voting...
...Starting freshman year, my self-confidence began to decrease on all levels, particularly with respect to academics and my personal life. I think I started to become aware of it sophomore year, but it didn't seem to represent too much of a problem" Hudson says now. She had come to Harvard from the public schools of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and on a superficial level, her initial insecurities probably seemed to her and to others to be part of a fairly common syndrome. Many of those who arrive freshman year from far away places, very much alone, after outstanding careers...