Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, even though Gore is the Democratic candidate most likely to win votes in the South, he is far from being a racist, conservative good ol' boy. Like his father--former Senator Albert Gore, Sr., who, alone among all Southern senators, refused to sign the "Southern Manifesto" attacking "Brown v. Board of Education"--Gore has been a strong supporter of civil rights legislation and has vehemently criticized recent Administration attempts to gut the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action. Indeed, after Jackson, Gore is the top choice of several major civil rights groups. Gore has also sponsored and supported legislation...
Prince Albert meets The Outsider. A Southern-style barn-burner, or at least that's what Gary Trudeau would have us believe...
...prize in this mythic Southern battle--a whopping 2000 plus delegates and a chance to lock up the Democratic and Republican nominations. And beyond that a chance for the South to rise again. Said to say, none of this will happen...
...weeks before the Board of Overseers meets to consider voting on divestment, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) is urging students to write the Overseers in favor of the Board's support of divestment...
...Smith as the Politician (who is supposed to be Sen. Joseph McCarthy) gives new meaning to the word corrupt. His Southern drawl oozes with slime and blackmail. Despite his choir boy looks and white summer suit, he has the moral code of a modern-day Mephistopheles...