ADS-L Digest - 4 Dec 2002 to 5 Dec 2002 (#2002-314)

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 12:53 AM 12/6/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> > Date:    Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:19:41 -0500
> > From:    Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: Teaching With a Kentucky Accent
> >
> > I tell my students that this prejudice will change as power and money
> > move southward, as they now are.  Four presidents since LBJ have been
> > from the South, and no one considers them dumb (well, maybe excepting
> > the present one...),
>
>Eugene McCarthy has been quoted as saying "I would not entrust Jimmy
>Carter and his band of merry men with the job of snake control in
>Ireland."

Yes, alas, Gene McCarthy (who I campaigned for in my old Minnesota days)
fell prey to elitism. . . .