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Episode Number: 1138Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer host a discussion of the "New South," defining it and talking about how it relates to politics in the entire country, for The Robert MacNeil Report. The announcement that Jimmy Carter would be the Democratic nominee for president sparks a discussion with various Southern residents, including Fannie Lou Hamer a former sharecropper from Mississippi. The discussion centers on the climate surrounding race relations and how the aftermath of the Civil War created a lack of Southern leaders in politics.
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