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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1979
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KINGSTREE, S.C. — For
ousands of poor people from the
uth, most of them black, the
ban centers of the North are no
nger viewed as the land of oppor-
nity where they can claim their
irtion of the American dream.
The vast migration to the North
train test; ith jobs in steel mills and auto fac-
for an eijf ries following World War II ap-
to be ending.
Thousands of poor blacks, and
linatinglj hites, have returned home. And
tment atj tany others who would have gone
nd John It irth just 10 years ago are staying
ome now, satisfied with good jobs
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fates.
This is true even for those on wel-
re, such as 33-year-old Lilly
leasar.
While her six children ran in and
it of her sparsely furnished house
r which she pays $11 a month,
easar talked softly about how glad
was to leave the “hustle and
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“I don’t miss it a bit, said Ceasar,
reed-thin, black woman clad in a
icy em, orn housecoat and slippers.
“I was fed up, said the woman
ho fled South Carolina in 1966 be-
• i> Muse she “didn’t want to spend the
^ :stof my life working on the farm. ’
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But the crime in New York, the cold
weather and the lack of open spaces
for her children brought her back.
Ceasar, a welfare mother who
spent 12 years living in the slums of
Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brooklyn,
returned — without her husband —
to poor, rural Williamsburg County
last year.
For Ceasar, New York City was
not the land of opportunity so she
came home. The Census Bureau
says people like her represent a rel
atively new trend, poor people mov
ing to the South for jobs and a better
lifestyle.
There’s also another trend,
studies show, and this one is illus
trated by the case of Linwood
Cooper, who was born poor but got
a college degree and found a good
job in the South.
Cooper, an articulate college
graduate who grew up as the son of a
domestic in this tobacco-growing
county, is a case worker at the De
partment of Social Services’ food
stamp office — the same office
Ceasar visits.
With his $11,000 annual salary
and his wife’s $7,100 salary, life for
the 28-year-old county employee is
a lot different from the days when
dinner sometimes consisted of “no
thing but bread and water on the
t^ble. ”
Except for a stint in Columbia,
S.C. where Cooper attended Be
nedict College — working full time
to put himself through school —
Cooper has spent his whole life in
Williamsburg County.
The trends are documented in a
1978 study by Larry Long, “Inter
regional Migration of the Poor. ’’
The study notes what appears to
be a reversal of a pattern that began
more than half a century ago when
poor southerners, many of whom
were black and politically dis
enfranchised, flocked to the urban
Northeast in search of the American
dream.
Long’s study, which has a broad
definition of the South including
states as far north as Delaware and
Maryland and as far West as Okla
homa, reveals that until 1971 more
poor people were leaving the South
than coming into the region.
But between 1971 and 1975, an J
“unrecognized shift” of net immi
gration of people below the poverty
level began to occur. In 1975-77, j
the South had an estimated net im
migration of 127,000.
Long noted that while the change
in the migration figures stemmed in
part from poor people coming into
the South, the most important
change resulted from the poor who
opted to remain in their homeland.
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When a grocer called Hugh Baird
at his Bracey, Va., home to tell him
Dolly Parton would be dropping by
for a picnic, Baird figured he was
being put on. What, after all, would
a superstar be doing in a little town
of 500? Looking for a picnic site,
that’s what — and when Dolly and
her whole band drove up in their
new $500,000 touring bus, they
found one. Seems they were travel
ing between engagements when
smitten by the picnic urge. They
stopped at the Bracey grocery store
for provisions and Baird s scenic
homesite was recommended. Says
Baird, “It was the biggest thing
that’s happend on Holly Grove
Creek since they flooded the lake.”
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cannibalism a myth
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LONDON — The missionary in countless cartoons is in the stew-
pvA wivile grinning cannibals contemplate their dinner.
Everybody knows the drawing is just the vehicle for a funny cap
tion because everybody knows cannibals don’t eat people any more.
What is upsetting the world of anthropology at the moment is the
laim that that they never did. It was made by associate professor W.
Arens of the State University of New York in a new book, “The
Man-Eating Myth, published by the prestigious Oxford University
Press.
“Despite the massive literature alluding to cannibalism. ” he wrote,
the author finds that there is no satisfactory firsthand account of this
rolvedin act as a socially-approved custom in any part of the world. ”
Arens concedes that many people have reported cannibalism but,
he argues, there has never been an unimpeachable eye witness to the
practice. In other words, one person may have eaten another from
time to time but nowhere is there absolute proof that any tribe or
adiatioiii nation regarded it as a part of their way of life or cuisine.
Anthropologist Edmund Leach was one of those quick to take issue
t Site woi with Arens. He said in the pages of New Society that he found it hard
to believe that the author was serious. He went on:
“It is perfectly true that, as Arens notes, cannibalism is a horror
stifled,! story fantasy which may be encountered in all parts of the world,
oed by*Innumerable anthropologists, including myself, have been assured
by their informants that “they, ” those sub-human monsters who live
irren, pr on the other side of the hill, regularly engage in cannibalism, incest,
bestiality and all manner of other atrocities.
“It is also true that many early travelers were very gullible and
naive about such matters. Indeed the missionaries often had a vested
interest in exhibiting the local natives as utterly depraved. Many of
the cases of cannibalism which are recorded in the ethnographic
literature of earlier centuries are certainly fictitious.
But to go to the opposite extreme and pretend that there is no real
evidence for cannibalism at all is quite absurd.”
Leach points out that cannibalism is a fashionable subject for con
troversy among American antropologists at present because, he said,
two of them, Michael Harner and Marvin Harris, “have been plug
ging the improbable thesis that the human sacrifices which were
prevalent among the Aztec at the time of Cortez’s conquest of Mexico
were a crucial source of animal protein among the population and that
it was a general shortage of such protein which explains the preva
lence of cannibalism among many groups of Indians in Central and
South Axuetxca at that period.”
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