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Although he was a New Dealer, Maybank's eyes were lightly cysted with the Southern-and more precisely, the South Carolina-point of view, e.g., he fought for public housing for years, then early this year tried to kill the whole program when he realized that Negroes might be admitted to developments where whites would live. Insofar as he was a liberal-and he was-he had little or nothing in common with such liberals as Hubert Humphrey or Herbert Lehman. Insofar as he was a conservative-and he was-he had little or nothing in common with such...
Tradition Upheld. Burnet Maybank could be understood only as a Southern aristocrat. Few of the breed survived politically the triple ordeals of Civil War, Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction revolt of the South's small farmers and small townsmen-those variously described as the wool-hats, the plain people, the Snopeses; the hillbillies or the pine hill men. Unlike them, Maybank trusted government because he was born to it. Unlike them, he distrusted big government because he wanted nothing from it for himself or his group-other than participation in responsibility and power...
...longer than many members of Britain's House of Lords can trace gentle ancestry, Maybank's forebears upheld in tidewater South Carolina the aristocratic tradition, serving the Crown, the Continental Congress, the Union, the Confederacy and, above all, South Carolina-as a colony, as a state and as an idea. Five of his ancestors were colonial or state governors, and Maybank himself was elected governor...
Tradition Shattered. Most of Burnet Maybank's ancestors were low-country planters. Senator Maybank's father was a Charleston physician, and Maybank grew up in a stately colonial house in Charleston. After World War I, Maybank became a cotton exporter, then a Charleston alderman and mayor. He shattered the modern tradition that low-country aristocrats could not win the votes of up-country farmers; in 27 years of politics he never lost an election, was elected to the Senate three times, and was unopposed for reelection this year...
...Maybank was not the last of the Southern aristocrats in the Senate. Virginia's Harry Byrd is still very much alive. And as Burnet Rhett Maybank was buried in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery last week, South Carolinians could remember how deep the stream of family runs in the low country. At the graveside was Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr., 30, a rising young member of the state legislature...