When they voted for Wallace they stood up to be counted.
How many did they amount to?
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Lots of votes. The statistics are available to be looked up if you wish.
The Southern Democrats never forgave the Republicans for Reconstruction or the Freedman's Bureau.
As the group 'Alabama used to sing'
Written by bob mcdill
Chorus
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There aint nobody looking back again.
Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch.
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich.
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat.
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that.
Sing it...
Chorus
Well somebody told us wall street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell.
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a-gonna save us all.
Well momma got sick and daddy got down.
The county got the farm and they moved to town.
Pappa got a job with the TVA
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.
Song, song of the south...
Gone, gone with the wind...
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
The generation after Daddy moved to town got all literate and stuff, but they still needed someone to look down on, and Wallace allowed them to do that without voting for Yankees. The generation after that didn't care about them being Yankees so long as they still believed in keeping the n*gg*rs in their place, preferably in another party.
I think the "shut my mouth" suggests that we not talk about that cotton sharecropper's farm we come from.