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...Civil War, 4 million people were held in bondage, fueling the South???s economy but cleaving the nation...
...houses, has 95 more in the planning and construction stages, and guarantees that if his heating ideas do not work satisfactorily, he will install a conventional furnace. Across the country, some 200 houses have been built incorpo- rating the heat-saving features ?heavy insulation and windows that face south???of the Illnois LoCal house, designed in the mid-'70s by University of Illinois ar chitects and engineers...
...even know who he was. He occupied no political office; his one term as Georgia's Governor had ended in January 1975, and state law kept him from running again. He was the typical outsider, and it was an axiom of politics that outsiders?particularly those from the South???went nowhere nationally...
...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...
...agrarian land?albeit one well supplied by China and the Soviet Union?was finally on the verge of victory. What durable, wily old Ho Chi Minh had insisted on, what his heirs in Hanoi had continued to demand?the departure of the Americans and their chosen government in the South???was finally coming to pass...