Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, September 28 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). U.S. Olympic men's and women's gymnastic trials from Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif., and the roaring Southern 500 Stock Car Championship from Darlington...
Four to Nine. Even "pointed-headed" newsmen, as he calls them, now concede Wallace anywhere from four to nine Southern states in November and a large, though still unpredictable, impact on the vote in much of the rest of the country. Union members in industrial areas are deserting the Democratic standard in droves, even as large numbers of suburbanites and white-collar workers, who might be expected to vote Republican, are declaring for Wallace. Something like 2,500,000 voters have signed petitions to put Wallace's name on the ballot in the 50 states...
Part of the nutritional problem is caused by ignorance and custom: the black Southern diet is based on the pig. Southern pigs yield some meat, but that doesn't last long. At pigkilling time--usually near the beginning of fall--families have a few meals of bacon and pork loin. From then on, dinner consists of the other pig parts--the ears, the tail, the chittlins (intestines), and--worst of all--the fatback...
...hunger continues. There have been sporadic efforts to solve it--the most recent by the Southern Rural Research Project (SRRP). SRRP workers, working from their headquarters in the black section of Selma, Ala., spent the summer of 1967 making a quantitative survey of just how many people were hungry, why they were hungry, and what could be done about it. Their work led to the production of several reports and to the CBS television special 'Hunger In America...
Unfortunately, Southern police have goten shrewder since the old days of marches in Selma and Birmingham. Police chiefs have learned that brutality, arrests, tear gas and fire hoses offer at best a temporary solution, because there is no way for the Old South to hold out against the Northern press and its hated film clips of marchers being gassed. The police knew that they could beat SRRP by leaving it alone; SRRP was beaten. The 20,000 pounds didn't last long, and without national press coverage, SRRP returned to its old local tactics...