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...South's many paradoxes that violence is not far from the surface. Montgomery, Ala., Lubbock, Texas, and Savannah, Ga., have the three highest murder rates in the nation, in part because of the gun-toting tradition and a sense that honor dictates that real or imagined wrongs must be redressed. But up North, the combined rate of violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery) is still greater than that of the South. Almost everywhere, people can walk the Dixie streets without having to fear muggings or purse snatchings...
Carter is a product of Georgia, and he moves easily in the two cities without which the state would be Alabama East. Atlanta and Savannah represent a wedding of the old and the new, and give Georgia the tone that distinguishes it from the rest of the South. Savannah drips with history, tradition and gentility. Atlanta is and was the transportation crossroads of the South. It is a city of stunning architecture, the regional headquarters of most of FORTUNE'S 500, cosmopolitan rather than provincial (only a quarter of the population is native-born...
...father's father was born a slave somewhere near Savannah, Ga. My mother's father was the son of a white undertaker and his mulatto concubine in a small town in North Carolina...
...deepest realization of what the Old South was really like came in about 1962, when my father, brother, a friend and I drove South to my grandmother's house in Stuart, Fla. On the way we were denied a room in a Holiday Inn in Savannah, and wound up sleeping in a "rooming house" (read whorehouse) that hadn't had an overnight guest in years. In Stuart, my father went into a hardware store to buy a Thermos bottle. The white clerk asked my dad, a distinguished professor of surgery at least 20 years his senior, "What...
...them in Savannah...