How The South Spread -- And Then Rose Again
December, 1977
insights and outcries on matters large and smallThe South's biggest export since 1940 has been its people. In the ten years between 1960 and 1970 alone, one half million good ole boys and girls, and 1,380,000 blacks, tired of being called boy and girl, left for other parts of the country.Those people and their chauvinism provided a hidden underpinning for Jimmy Carter's political success last year and reshaped the conventional wisdom of who and what make American politics tick.Carter won because...
