Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie

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279 notes abbreviations for media ac Atlanta Constitution aj Alabama Journal ajc Atlanta Journal-Constitution ap Associated Press apt Alabama Public Television as Anniston Star bn Birmingham News cnn Cable News Network ftr For the Record, Alabama Public Television gcd Greene County Democrat ht Huntsville Times ma Montgomery Advertiser mpr Mobile Press Register mr Mobile Register npr National Public Radio nyt New York Times sc Southern Changes tn Tuscaloosa News wp Washington Post wsj Wall Street Journal introduction 1. Robin Toner, “Stakes High in Contest for Alabama Governor,” nyt, Sept. 26, 1990. 2. In a pattern repeated throughout black majority jurisdictions in the rural South, the election of black sheriffs greatly dampened the long era of white terror. See, for instance , the discussion of Lowndes County, Alabama, and the importance of the election of Sheriff John Hulett in Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt. 280 • notes to introduction 3. “Alabamastan” at http://boortz.com/more/boortztionary.html (accessed Mar. 15, 2009). 4. Lydia Saad, “Political Ideology: ‘Conservative’ Label Prevails in the South,” at http://www.gallup.com/poll/122333/Political-Ideology-Conservative-Label-Prevails -South.aspx (accessed Aug. 21, 2009). 5. George Talbot, “Alabama a Global Player,” mpr, Sept. 9, 2009; Dan Luzadder, “Financing Cultural Change,” nyt, Oct. 28, 2009. 6. Brian Lyman, “Report Finds Household Incomes Lag,” mpr, Sept. 5, 2007. 7. Wanda Rushing, Memphis and the Paradox of Place, 85. 8. Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference, 173. 9. Susan Pace Hamill, “Reform in Alabama,” sc 24, nos. 3–4 (2002), 10; and see Hamill’s full study, “An Argument for Tax Reform Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics.” 10. Horace Mann Bond, Negro Education in Alabama, 247. Bond quotes from a Brookings Institution survey of 1932. 11. Eddie Lard, “We’d Rather Hunt and Fish Than Educate Our Children,” bn, Dec. 12, 2004. Dewayne Key, “Scholar as Activist,” 200–202. 12. Rahkia Nance, “Alabama’s Rising Dropout Rate Could Slow State’s Economic Recovery,” bn, Feb. 11, 2009. 13. In 2007 Alabama collected $455 per capita, Georgia $1,010, Florida $1,482, New Jersey $2,485. See Tax Foundation, “State and Local Property Tax Collections Per Capita by State, Fiscal Year 2007,” at http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/251 .html (accessed Oct. 22, 2009); David Cay Johnston, “Professor Cites Bible in Faulting Tax Policies,” nyt, Dec 25, 2007. 14. “Alabama Income Taxes the Highest for Families Living at Poverty Line,” ap, Apr. 30, 2010. 15. Wayne Flynt, “A Tragic Century: The Aftermath of the 1901 Constitution,” 37. 16. As the gap between rich and poor widened, median U.S. income between 1979 and 2005 went up only 12 percent. David Leonhardt, “In the Process, Pushing Back at Inequality,” nyt, Mar. 24, 2010. 17. Jim Williams, “Economic Development and the Alabama Constitution,” remarks to the Alabama State Bar Convention at Point Clear, Alabama, July 16, 2009. 18. Applied to a U.S. state, rather than a nation-state, my rendering of the political imaginary nonetheless draws upon the discussion in Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe, 2–39. 19. Alabama Department of Archives and History, “Official Symbols and Emblems of Alabama,” at http://www.archives.state.al.us/emblems/heart_of_Dixie.html (accessed Nov. 25, 2005). Implementation of the motto on auto tags began in 1955. 20. Jonathan Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South, 262. notes to introduction • 281 21. “Holmes Questions Critic’s Interracial Marriage,” ma, Jan 22, 2001. 22. Drew Jubera, “Debate over ‘Dixie,’” ajc, May 6, 2002; Jannell McGrew, “Woman fights illegal-tag ticket,” ma, Apr 18, 2002; Karen Taylor, an African American lawyer and criminal justice professor at Alabama State was ticketed by a state trooper for taping over “Dixie” in the “Heart of Dixie.” 23. “‘Choose Life’ Tag Approved for State,” ap, Oct 25, 2001. Public opinion polling places Alabama among the foremost states in opposition to abortion rights. “Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice,” Survey usa, Sept. 12, 2005, at http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2005/ 50StateAbortion0805SortedbyProLife.htm (accessed Mar. 10, 2010); Thomas F. Schaller, Whistling Past Dixie, 100–102. 24. “Stars Fell on Alabama,” at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_Fell_on_Alabama. The historical reference is to a meteor shower visible over the state in 1833. 25. “Alabama Official Emblems, Symbols, and Honors,” http://www.archives.state .al.us/emblems/emblems.html (accessed Mar. 24, 2010). 26. John Lewis and Michael...