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...town to build his family a new house far from the gawking tourists who "drive you slap-assed crazy." Nor will he be a stranger to public service. Right after losing to Blanton. he was named to a six-year, $1,800-per-annum term as tax assessor for Sumter County. Good thing that, as he says, he has never felt jealous of Jimmy...
...member of the school board in segregationist Sumter County (Ga.) from 1955 to 1962, Carter was regarded as "liberal" by other board members, yet went along with policies that blatantly discriminated against black pupils and teachers. But he also fought-unsuccessfully-to consolidate the county's schools and thus integrate them...
These episodes have cast longer shadows with white Democratic liberals than with blacks, many of whom understand the conditions and atmosphere in which Carter grew up and launched his political career. Referring to Carter's outspoken opposition to discrimination, Andy Young says: "In Sumter County you could literally get killed for saying the kind of things Jimmy...
LEGEND HAS IT that the American South is a monolith. It had all begun by 1861, the story goes. Since the firing on Fort Sumter, the secession of 11 states and the formation of the Confederacy, Southern men and women have worshipped different heroes, anchored their beginnings to different battles and spun their folklore around a different war for independence. Their history began not in the spirit of 1976, but in the intransigence of the 1860s; not in Massachusetts Bay, but deep in the Delta of Mississippi or the Piedmont of South Carolina; not in the cradle of liberty...
...onslaught against the liberal domestic policies of past Democratic Presidents. His State of the Union message this week, and his budget presentation next week, will pinpoint the programs to be cut. "The President's budget message," predicted one of his aides, "will be akin to the firing at Fort Sumter." At a time when federal funds are running short, such cutbacks neatly fit his essentially conservative social attitude. Nixon watchers are sure that he has moved far away from his first-term notion, inspired by the tutelage of Pat Moynihan, that "Tory men and liberal policies are what have changed...