Bear Bryant's Miracles
October, 1979
Because I grew up in a multiethnic environment in New York City, the South has always conjured up some bad news reactions on word-association tests for me: Klan, lynch, redneck, moonshine, speed-trap towns and death ... lots of death.As the years have passed, I've started hearing some flip sides. There's the "New South," with Atlanta as cosmopolitan as New York. I've heard that, despite the headline horrors, Southerners get along racially better than Northerners. And that foreign black...
