The National Review has an e-mail interview with Jesse Helms.Helms has some interesing things to say about the South and his favorite colleagues:
The American South today: Is it fully part of America, completely reconciled? Is the Civil War over, mentally, culturally?
Let’s see — the fastest-growing spectator sport in America is NASCAR. Country-music stars pack stadiums everywhere they perform. The last two presidents of the United States have been from Arkansas and Texas. And two of the biggest banks in the country are headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. I’d say the South has pretty well recovered from a dispute that took place over a hundred years ago. Of course, if Hollywood keeps serving up stereotypes of country bumpkins with bad accents, we may have to retaliate.
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Did you have favorite colleagues? Unfavorite colleagues?
Certainly Ron Reagan and Margaret Thatcher rank among my favorites, but among fellow senators I’d include Hubert Humphrey and Jim Allen and Joe Biden and Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan and so many others retired or currently serving, or sadly no longer with us.
Read the whole interview.
