Sentences with word «southerners»

«well - off people in the north are more likely to vote Labour than the poor are in the south -LSB-...] northerners from the highest social class are more likely to vote Labour than are southerners from the lowest social class.»

Traditionally, the Dems avoid putting their few really conservative members on judiciary (e.g., Zell Miller wanted on Judiciary in the early 2000s, but Daschle said no), but now there are only 51 Dems and a number of them are pretty conservative (Tester, Webb, and a bunch of the existing southerners)-- the sort who might not block the next Alito in committee.

In the 1950 and 60s, there was millions of southerners and Americans who knew that segregation was wrong, but they did not act.

If they don't build renewable energy in their own state, then that money will simply be spent on projects being built by the southerners — be it in NSW, Victoria or South Australia.

Routh's prints reflect the hardships endured by many southerners he saw during this trip.

This exhibition and event series invited contemporary artists to respond to archival materials and poetry relating to the history of white southerners who migrated to northern cities in the 1960s and 70s and organized cross-racial social movements, while addressing historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

The 16 photographs selected for this show explore rural life in this region and how southerners have engaged with the landscape over time.

The NLF was never static on the issue of negotiations, and by 1969 powerful southerners were supporting this move.

The inspiring, hardscrabble lives of Depression - era southerners make for a vivid story of love and forgiveness!

She could be as tight - minded and purse - mouthed as the southerners she hated so.

Harper Lee created the Atticus of WATCHMAN out of the ambivalence she felt toward white southerners like him.

Jim Crow was a localized form of state - sponsored oppression that was, at the time illegal based on federal law but allowed to continue by apathetic and politically expedient federal authorities under the guise of furthering a doctrine of «states rights»; the same euphemism for slavery the southern plantation owning oligarchs used to rationalize secession and trick the poor white southerners to fight a war and die in the millions.

Nonetheless, her parents made sure their household (Louisiana West) maintained a definite non-California edge, including a steady supply of grits, gumbo, cornbread, and collard greens, and a stream of other transplanted southerners eager to share their «back - home» stories.

The people of Ada and Pontotoc County are a pleasant blend of small - town southerners and independent westerners.

Caro demonstrates how Johnson's political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust — or at least the cooperation — of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency.

Howard's on - target reading of southerners, Nazi conspirators, and others perfectly complements the wit and underlying moral ambiguity in Leonard's hot novel.

I also thought it struck that similar chord of affection for the South - both Iles and Grisham are southerners.

But southerners aren't the only group who does this.

His Massachusetts - born spouse was keen on the notion that southerners were over-fond of sighing, something apparently beneath the dignity of Yankees.

The arrival of southerners and modern technology resulted in big changes to the Inuit diet and way of life.

Students analyze Atticus» character in Go Set a Watchman in historical context by reading primary sources that illuminate the ways many white southerners reacted to the prospect of social change.

Until the 1970's, white southerners who wanted to maintain legal segregation of the races and the option of private schools for their own children, and northern Catholics who sought support for parochial schools comprised large blocks of Democratic votes.

President Richard Nixon adopted a «southern strategy» to bring white southerners and northern Catholics into the Republican Party through advocating for vouchers for private school tuition.

This controversial remedy provoked huge outcries from parents and legislators, Democrats and Republicans, northerners and southerners.

Although neither studied education at the time, Kane says that their similar backgrounds as southerners created an instant bond.

Rees doesn't create a caricature of southerners, rather a sadly familiar time that feels all too relevant today.

It's back on his farm where he meets and befriends Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), a slave woman who has been secretly learning to read and who will introduce him to an underground society of runaway slaves and a handful of other disenchanted southerners.

Given his ebullient personality and good looks, Ren McCormack is quickly accepted by most southerners his own age, almost none of whom had been farther afield than Alabama.

Take pictures or have a picnic or even just go for a drive and take notice of them, because for sad southerners like myself, the changing leaves is kind of lame.

New Englanders can be just as friendly as southerners, but they take a little warming up to.

Anyone (especially southerners!)

We southerners don't do snow very well... the whole town shuts down when there's the mere mention of snow.

That would be perfect for us too, love that we're both from CT and are now southerners:) Happy Friday gurlie < 3

Isotopious, Do you know that the southerners among us are right this moment reading your post and saying, «Bless his heart.»

But a visit to the Peary - MacMillan Arctic Museum on the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, reminds those of us who live in the North that frigid weather really does build character, and southerners really are sissies.

I know that after the war and in the process of punishing those who took active part in it, a lot of injustices have been perpetrated but we have also had opportunities as southerners to correct some of these things when our people were in power at the federal level but they failed to do anything.

southerners / Christians lives matter.

moreover, whether Jonathan has only your support all the support of all Igbos including the south - southerners, you guys are not up to the Yorubas not to talk of half of the Hausa people, you better short up now and face how you can organise a-welcome-home party for your dear brother Jonathan come 2015... thanks

Gen. Abdulsalami (Abubakar), has called for restructuring; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has called for restructuring; respected southerners and northerners have done so and even IBB has today (Monday) urged the government to restructure, but like I said, the Presidency is deaf to the voice of reason.

There had never be a time when the southerners have culture, inter-trading, religion, inter marriage with the so call Arewa people of the northern Nigeria in the history, The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past, let split the country we know the real map of Biafra and Oodua

You can confirm this from most southerners who have taken the Northern region as their homes.

You can confirm this from most southerners who have taken the Northern Region as their homes.

Advisor on the National Assembly and who is from the South - South, are the ONLY southerners in key positions in Buhari's Presidency.

To Buhari ALL southerners are slaves.»

i guess the only people interested in listening to Mr. 9 -1-1 are southerners, prob» ly the last group buying the tall tales he tells.

The welfare state needs to be more universal, more reciprocal, and offer more choice, in order to satisfy southerners.

[3] He hoped that his campaign would «build an opportunity for all Alabamians to renew their commitment to return to these things which make us the people we are — southerners.»

But, for the most part, the senior military command comprises better educated southerners.

The New Deal rested on the support of a coalition of interests including: organized labor, farmers, blue collar workers, white southerners, minorities, and more.

Another example is the 1960s, which saw a major realignment with white southerners shifting from the Democratic party to the Republican party and African - Americans making the opposite shift.