Show Why South Backed Nixon Recent polls have shown the voter in Dixie looks more kindly on former Nixon than most That comes as no surprise to those who closely study presidential NIXON was the first President in many years to look to the South for members of the Supreme for one He had promised this and tried to fulfill his though two of his appointees were Nixon was also the first President in years to travel frequently into the THE prejudice against Dixie in other parts of the nation has as a politicians from other areas and others still sometimes have a vision of Dixie as Tobacco But have changed greatly in the post-war years and that is what Nixon In many Dixie sets an example for the rest of the TIRED of being a ridiculed and condemned by so many outside their area for many residents of the South naturally responded to a President who didn't buy the stereotyped and that included voters of all though not as many blacks as Today the South leads the nation in school in racial and in in In outdoor activities and year-round IT HAS a long way to but it is getting What Nixon in was that the region's people were no better or worse than those in other areas-and that the South was a region of |