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It is sadly obvious that the "New South" so herald after the election of new group ^crop of Southern Governor is, with few exceptions, merely the "old" South slicked over.¹³

Governor Carter's pathetic attempt to bully the National Democratic Party into its quadrennial compliance with the worst elements of the un-Reconstructed South will hopefully fall.

His complaint that Senator McGovern is the "only candidate who has not promised equal treatment under federal laws for Southern states" is merely a repetition of the old compaint that the region of racism, reaction and repression is being singled out for special treatment.

No other section of the country denied Black people the right to vote. No other section of the country segregated its schools, public transportation and private businesses by law. No other section of the country had the discredited doctrine of white supremacy written into law, practiced as public policy, and supported from pulpit and goveernor's mansion.

And no other section of the country has boasted so long and so loudly about its threatened defection from the national Democratic⁴ party while offering so little support to that party in Presidential contests.

Its national legislators, grown powerful with seniority bestowed on them by denying Black people the franchise, have a miserable record of national party support. The region's governors, elected as "state" Democrats, support the policies and platforms of the minority party or of racist fringe candidates with solely regional appeals in general elections.

An important lesson for those who consider themselves Democrats would be the simple arithmatic of 1964 and 1968 Presidential elections. In those two contests (Particularly 1968), if Black voters had not supported the Democratic nominee he wouldn't have received many votes at all. 7 out of every 10 votes Hubert Humphrey got in 1968 in Georgia were Black; this