Southerners are used to resurgence
Southerners are accustomed to resurgence because of the Civil War and changes in race relations, namely the effects of the civil rights movement has had on the regional South.
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Oral History Interview with Jimmy Carter [exact date unavailable], 1974. Interview A-0066. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- JACK BASS:
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Do you think that comes in part, also, because the southern experienced the Civil War defeat?
- JIMMY CARTER:
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I think so. I talked to Pat Caddell at length about this last week, and you may have talked to him yourself. But I believe that this experience of resurgence has been a part of the southern life on two different occasions. Obviously, the most of important of which was the war between the states. And I think the second one has been an escape, in more recent years, from the constraints on our lives brought about by a preoccupation with the race issue. We've gone through a very great ordeal, a traumatic experience, in recent years, in changing our basic social relationships with black citizens. And Ithink we feel, again,
that we've been successful in overcoming that handicap.
