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I began to realize that actually the USA didn't exist in the emotional life of the people who had the decision to make at the time of the Civil War. These people in 1928 - a great long while after the Civil War - none of whom had themselves been in the Civil War, though some of them were the children of Civil War veterans, still felt that way. Mr. Chissy Langhorne was too young to have been in the Civil War.

It isn't the same at all in 1952 as it was in 1928. You mention Jimmy Byrnes. Nonsense! He doesn't give a damn about the Civil War or anything else. Jimmy Byrnes is strictly for Jimmy Byrnes. That's the greatest man that was ever born in this country. He has to establish that important thing.

I realized then, and in fact Black said it to me, as we went upstairs to the drawing room after dinner, “You see why it's going to be so hard to sell a man like Al Smith to the Democrats of the South. That's where your vote is. That's where the great Democratic vote is - in the South. You haven't got any Democratic party except for the South.” I tried to tell him about New York and Massachusetts. He said, “That's all right, if you can get it, but your great, solid Democratic vote is in the South.” He laid





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