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...because people aged 18 to 21 were eligible for the first time, and they are less inclined to vote than others. This year, says Daniel Yankelovich, "the election bears all the earmarks of 1948, except that we don't yet know which candidate will play Harry Truman's starring role." Studies of the 1948 election found that voters who are vacillating between unexciting choices for President tend either to put off making a final decision until the last minute or not to vote at all. Says Yankelovich: "This is what is happening today." The voters may be turned...
...Southern blacks allied with Northern liberals and labor unions. The story gets complicated here, Bass and DeVries say, because the pressure exerted on behalf of racial equality changed major and minor features of politics very quickly. First, the Southern racists were read out of the National Democratic party at Truman's convention, and formed their own National States Rights Party. The civil rights movement won crucial successes after that, chief among them the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which insured the franchise for Southern blacks and ultimately, their political power in states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and South...
...emphasize issues of their own choosing. But both scored some solid debating points. While Carter criticized Ford's record of 56 vetoes in his two years in the White House as an example of "government by stalemate," the President claimed that F.D.R. had averaged 55 vetoes a year, Harry Truman 38 and Carter himself, as Governor of Georgia, between 35 and 40. (All such averages, of course, fail to gauge the significance of the measures vetoed...
Only in the intellectual fields of history and fiction has the South been brilliantly represented. But most of the luminaries left the South-Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Lillian Hellman, William Styron went to the North to write. Historians C. Vann Woodward, Julian Boyd and David Donald went to the North to teach. Explains one Deep South professor who moved away ten years ago: "Southern universities were not exactly bastions of freedom. Intellectuals could be severely hassled, and professors who held divergent views had to be either gutsy or masochistic to stay. It's difficult to seek or create...
...black alluvial soil" that was alike his invention and his home. Suddenly, a whole generation of Southerners saw the ground beneath their feet for what it could be: a foothold on the universe. Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, early Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor-for close to 40 years, the line of inspired Southern writers seemed inexhaustible. Critics sometimes refer to this outpouring as the Southern literary renaissance. It is a misnomer, for nothing like that flow of writing had occurred in the region before. For American readers...