Word: southern
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Maya Lin was living on New York City's Lower East Side when she received a call from a man in Louisiana in late February 1988. Edward Ashworth, a member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet...
Californians cannot count on the same lengthy intervals between disasters. , After a moderately powerful quake shook the area around Whittier in 1987, a University of Southern California survey of 235 people in Los Angeles County found that most of those questioned were not interested in leaving. But 30% said they might make plans to go if another quake of the same magnitude shook them...
...deny that racial politics influence many Southern rural voters--but not that many. Liberals ought to face the facts: Liberal elitism hurts Democrats just as much as Southern racism, if not more...
Bush's blue-blood ancestry and his Yale education certainly don't qualify him for that praise. And though Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is hardly a farm-boy himself, he comes closer than Bush to matching the class aspirations of most rural Southern voters. Yet they went for Bush in droves...
...fault segment that slips. In addition, large earthquakes tend to be spaced further apart than small ones, since it takes a much longer time to accumulate sufficient stress. While scientists cannot say exactly where or when the next Big One will hit, they are not without hunches. Southern California, which has not had a Big One since 1857, is every seismologist's first...