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Pay Day in Georgia
Smith, Lillian | February 1, 1947 issue

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Georgia signed a bargain years ago with ignorance and fear and the "poor white," and today they are paying off. Herman Talmadge and the Crackers have moved into the Capitol. Tear bombs, hoodlums, hate, tobacco-spitting, bad grammar, and obscene race jokes are chumming cozily together now under the old Georgia dome. The Crackers are the whites of the state who feel inferior. Herman Talmadge has jeopardized law and order in Georgia by a coup d'ètat so violent, so brazen, that it has shocked the entire state. The Cracker party is not for change. It wants to hold things just as they are, or were four years ago, because it believes that only in this way can it get back its power.

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GEORGIA -- Social life & customs; GEORGIA -- Politics & government; TALMADGE, Herman; SOCIAL classes; POLITICAL parties; GEORGIA; UNITED States
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