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...dead'aim at Carter's thicket and laid down his counterfire. Said Wechsler: "If he is saying that things are bad all over and that Southern prejudice has Northern parallels, we are disposed to agree . . . [But Carter] is really suggesting that we avert our eyes from the Southland because evil things also occur up North, just as the apologists for Soviet tyranny tell us we dare not attack their slave-system until we have ended oppression in Dixie...
Almost daily Cope finds room in his column for his favorite gospel-the coming of a Southland rich with new topsoil, year-round pastureland and milk-fed beef. The foundation of the Cope gospel is the fast-growing vine, kudzu;*he organized Georgia's Kudzu Club (20,000 members), and has plugged the vine so long that friends call him "the Kudzu Kid." It was betting on the horses that introduced Cope (and Georgia) to another important crop. On his way to drop a little money at the 1945 Kentucky Derby, Cope spotted a grass called Kentucky 31 fescue...
...government said yes, Communist troops would enter China's southland both east and west of Nanking, would then wheel coastward to cut off Shanghai. If the government said no, Communist troops were primed to cross the river by assault. In the vital lower Yangtze, they were 400,000 against the Nationalists...
...troops. At week's end, under able Generals Chen Yi and Lin Piao, they were prodding the Nationalists from their last footholds on the Yangtze's north bank. For the first time in the civil war, Red shells whined across the muddy river into the Nationalist southland...
That was why the voice of Strom Thurmond, with its counterfeit arguments for states' rights, and the voice of his cousin, Georgia's "Hummon" Talmadge, with its white demagoguery, were listened to and generally, if not unanimously, applauded in the Southland. These were the voices of the apologists and the defenders...