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There is no solid South, but divergent interests & pressure groups: business groups, farmers, citizens' councils & churches, public officials, & professionals. In the new urbanizing South, industrialists are for big business & little Gov, against labor unions. Race for them is a subject almost taboo. Ru constituencies are overwhelmingly over-represented & pressure for price supports, marketing quotas, etc. Racial interests are vociferously represented & have a perceptible influence in the State legislatures. Church groups also engage in pressure politics, & local congregations are generally segregated. By the standards of the 'Americans for Democratic Action', Southern Democrats are only slightly less liberal than the average Democrat. However, in a Gallup poll, 71% of the Southerners disapproved the Supreme Court's integration decisions. Southern congressmen filibuster persistently for 'states' rights', while at the same time demanding federal grants-in-aid to the states in other areas. IPSA.

Whether the intense & voluminous PO's during the Quemoy crisis of Sep & Oct 1958 in any way affected the substance of US foreign policy now appears doubtful, since the US continues to recognize the Nationalist Gov as the only authentic spokesman for the Chinese people, & has not turned the Quemoy problem or the broader issues of Formosa over to the UN, as a strong section of PO demanded. The ground-swell of protest & criticism did somewhat modify the conduct of foreign policy since, without according recognition, the US Gov agreed to negotiate with Communist China &, though not withdrawing support, it restrained Chiang Kai-Shek. It appears that the US press was over-excited & the US people under-informed in the crisis of 1958. IPSA.