Vaughn May (vmay@utm.edu) from acathrinecarls.utm.edu at 10/24/97 01:52PM
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    We should be careful about drawing a distinction between "good ole boys" and people with ideas. The problem with the South for too long was not that its politicians lacked creativity or imagination, but that its politicians used their considerable cleverness to promote schemes that denied equal opportunity to African-Americans. The ideas were present; racial justice was not.