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Page 8 text:
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The sign on the highway reads Laur- inburg, All America City, so we pause here a moment or a year, and we meet the All Americans. We drive the broad oak-shaded lanes and absorb the traditionally American small town flavor of it all . . . the children on their bikes, dogs barking after cars, high schoolers with Dad ' s car at the Cone. And as we drive the broad lanes, it is startling to suddenly notice that the houses along the street have become shabbier, the green lawns turned to dirt. Is this the same street? Can these be the same citizens of the same town? One almost feels there should be a sign explaining that each street of All Americans is divided into the first and second teams. But there is no sign, no explanation — this is the way things are in the All Ameri- can city, necessitating no rationale. No reasons are ever offered, nor should they be requested. The houses metamorphize quietly from red brick to rotting boards, the cool asphalt roadwav to dust. The childrens ' fine clothes have become ill fitting rags, the pets a bit less healthy; and one notices that the skins have turned black. S ;-
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UuRinBURQ: The American southland has long been a land unto itself, a culture dis- tinctly apart in her history and tradi- tion, but at the same time distinctly American in her culture. The South has created a culture that has defied time and space, remaining a land apart from the mainland; it is a land of cow towns and hog towns, of shiny new cities that seem to ask justifi- cation for the shacks along the high- ways. The South is personified by historic seaports and one-light back- water towns, of century old mansions and tenant farmers ' hovels. Here is a tradition of great contrast. The names of the cities bear out the differences . . . Raleigh, Charleston, -Savannah; the names suggest pillared plantation houses, azaleas, dogwoods, magnolias, long sloping lawns an d mint juleps on the veranda. It is the honored tradi- tion, the tangible reminders of the old landed aristocracv that once was the South. Then there are names like McColl, Lumberton. Americus; they suggest the other south, the tradition that is not in the best of taste to call attention to. This is the tradition of the drv flatland existence in the fields that will grow onlv cotton, the patchwork shacks with dirt floors, and the filthv children that play in that dirt.
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