Word: segregationist
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...conservative side of Carter's nature springs from his father's upbringing. Mr. Earl, as he was called, was a demanding father and an avowed segregationist, but he was also noted for his generosity in giving money and gifts to local blacks. (One thing the gregarious Mr. Earl was not able to teach Jimmy, however, was to relax and have fun for its own sake.) While Mr. Earl did not read books or allow blacks beyond his back door, Miss Lillian, his wife, compensated on both counts. She taught Jimmy to respect the rights of blacks, and beyond...
Industrialization and the growth of cities have already brought attendant blight: air pollution, traffic congestion, billboarded highways and garish fast-food enterprises. To Southern Journalist John Egerton (The Americanization of Dixie), "The modern, acquisitive, urban, industrial, post-segregationist, on-the-make South, its vices nationalized, its virtues evaporating if not already dissipated, is coming back with a bounce in its step, like a new salesman on the route, eager to please, intent on making...
...remarkable group of progressive Governors: Arkansas' Dale Bumpers, Florida's Reubin Askew, Mississippi's William Waller, South Carolina's John West, Louisiana's Edwin Edwards?and Jimmy Carter. They have since spawned a second generation. In Arkansas, Moderate David Pry or succeeded Bumpers as Governor, defeating old Segregationist Orval Faubus. In Mississippi, Cliff Finch, who uses a workingman's lunch pail as his political symbol, has followed Waller...
...Louisiana's State Representative Risley Claiborne ("Pappy") Triche was a legislative floor leader in the fight against school desegregation in the 1960s. But in 1972, speaking in favor of two bills aimed at protecting racial minorities from job discrimination, he acknowledged that some people might think, " 'Listen to that segregationist. Isn't that the guy who offered all the segregation bills in 1960 and fought the battle to preserve segregation in our public school system?' The only reply I can make to that, gentlemen, is that yes, that occurred. At that time in the state of development of the history...
...Barry Gold water became the first Republican ever to sweep the Deep South?but in so doing, he helped paint the Southern G.O.P. into a far corner of conservative, segregationist reaction. Figuring that Republicans could not win much of the black vote as a bloc, Goldwater said: "We ought to go hunting where the ducks are"?in effect among white segregationists. This appeal, then and since, attracted many strongly conservative Democrats who were distressed by the increasingly moderate trend of their own party. In 1972 the G.O.P. reached its high-water mark. Nixon won all Southern states, and after...