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The Democratic Party of today loves to take credit for all of the progress that the civil rights movement had to offer. They count John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby among those who spearheaded the movement as well as Lyndon Johnson and his welfare initiatives. Seldom do they mention George Wallace and Lester Maddox, both of whom were Democratic Governors from the South, one from Georgia and one from Alabama. They seldom mention them because they were bumps in the road for the civil rights movement, big, bigoted, pointy-hat wearing bumps in the road. Wallace later “saw the light”...

At the beginning of the school year, Dixie Outfitters T-shirts were all the rage at Cherokee High School. Girls seemed partial to one featuring the Confederate battle flag in the shape of a rose. Boys often wore styles that discreetly but unmistakably displayed Dixie Outfitters' rebel emblem logo. But now the most popular Dixie Outfitters shirt at the school doesn't feature a flag at all. It says: ''Jesus and the Confederate Battle Flag: Banned From Our Schools But Forever in Our Hearts.'' It became an instant favorite after school officials prohibited shirts featuring the battle flag in response to complaints...

Through lens of TV, movie producers, South looks dumb and dumber Hillbillies of Hazard, Ky., meet the rednecks of Pigeon Creek, Ala. Y'all are practically neighbors in pop culture's piney backwoods.The very real residents of Hazard are not terribly pleased to be among the possibles in the casting process to choose a family for "The Real Beverly Hillbillies," an upcoming CBS reality show that will take a family from the rural South or Appalachia, plunk them down in a la-dee-dah Left Coast mansion and see what happens. Itto spend up to a year in Beverly Hills. (Guess our Georgia rednecks...