From: sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee Sawyer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Marilyn Quayle claims Clinton thinks unlike a southerner
Keywords: politics, usa federal, government
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:18:00 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington High Energy Physics Group
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In article <1992Oct8.232627.23788@u.washington.edu>, sieferme@carson.u.washington.edu (Eric Sieferman) writes...
>News from Marilyn, via clarinet:
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>In article <marilynU2O6910pe@clarinet.com>
>clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI) writes:
>>	MONROE, La. (UPI) -- Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton does not think like a
>>southerner, vice-presidential wife Marilyn Quayle said Tuesday while on
>>a political tour of cotton-growing states.
>>	Mrs. Quayle told a Republican group in Monroe, La., ``Clinton's Ivy
>>League education is influencing his policies much more than his southern
>>birth.''
>>	She attacked Clinton's health care reform program as ``medically
>>inadequate and too expensive.''
>>	Wearing a lapel pin supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Mrs.
>>Quayle charged that Clinton's health care plan would force women to wait
>>six months for breast surgery.
>>	Mrs. Quayle made later Louisiana stops in Alexandria, Hammond, and
>>New Orleans.
>--------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>Any southerners out there care to explain how Arkansas native
>Bill Clinton does not think like a southerner, whereas
>GHWB (private school, Yale educated, long time Washington DC
>insider) does?
> 
> 
> 
>-- 
>| Eric Sieferman            |    sieferme@u.washington.edu          |
>| U. of W., M.C.I.S.        |    (206) 685-3104                     |
> 

 Let me personalize this : I grew up in Monroe, which for the longest
time recieved as much Arkansas news as Lousiana news, due to a TV
station which operated jointly from Monroe and El Dorade, AR. I have
been looking forward to voting for Bill Clinton for about ten years
now. He has been a fine gorvernor and will be a great president. I
find I am in complete agreement with Clinton on nearly every major
issue : reinvestment of our national resources; a pro-choice stance
in accordance with Roe v Wade; a scaled-down, more mobile military;
racial tolerence, etc.

  However I recognize that, in many ways, my views are atypical
of many of my fellow southerners. It is, I believe, the views of 
an educated person, in region where for generations, education was
not considered a great advantage. There is, as another respondent
noted, a great sense of jealousy over a "Northern" education. There
was also, for many years, a great distrust of "book learning" among 
rural southerners.

 Today there are really two tribes of native southerners : Those of
us who are citizens of the New South, the south of Jimmy Carter and
LeRoy Collins and Albert Gore, Sr.; and the vestiges of the old south,
the south of whites still resentful of equal opportunity legislation,
the south ripe for picking by the Republican party of Ronald Reagen
and George Bush. This south probably is more in agreement with 
Danforth Quayle and his brand of Hoosier Goldwaterism, than the 
progressive vision of New South statesmen like Bill Clinton and
Al Gore. But Bill Clinton and Al Gore have been reelected by 
southerners in their states, just as the citizens of the New South
kept that bastard Duke out of the Gorvernor's mansion in Baton
Rouge, and put Ann Richards in the mansion in Austin.

 Bill Clinton is a Southerner. The South shall rise again, not
from the ashes of the Civil War as a racist, whites-only region;
but from the ashes of the Civil Rights movement, as an example
of cooperation for the rest of our nation. Leave it to the
Republicans to introduce regional divisivness into the election -
I am one Southerner ready to see this nation pull together under
a new generation of leadership.

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         Lee Sawyer                                  

         Dept of Physics                          
         Univ. of Texas                            
               at Arlington