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...split between what has become known as "the two Georgias." Jordan, affecting a down-home and folksy style, is popular in the rural areas and farm towns, which still have more than half the state's Democratic primary voters. Standing on the deck of Spivey's pond house near Swainsboro or appearing at a fish fry at Mutt Kennedy's place in Midville, he swaps family tales and corny jokes before giving his stump speech about the need to bring the Democratic Party back to the center...
...night last week, in the little east Georgia town of Swainsboro, 189 hooded and bed-sheeted Ku Klux Klansmen burned a ten-foot cross on the lawn of the Emanuel County Courthouse. Their leader klarioned: "We rededicate our lives to the protection of white womanhood...
...Georgia, on the road between Swainsboro and Soperton, a small car bounced along, one night last week. Three men with white sacks over their heads stopped that car, dragged its driver from the wheel, beat him into insensibility with stout pine boards. He, Editor H. M. Flanders of the Soperton News, had written an editorial attacking bootleggers. Several years ago, he had been shot and wounded for a similar editorial...
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