10/01/1978
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"I resent very deeply what Ronald Reagan said about the South and about Alabama."
"As an American and a southerner I resent it."
"I think it was inaccurate, and I think it was something that all southerners will resent."
"Anybody who resorts to slurs and to innuendo against a whole region of the country, based on a false statement and a false premise, is not doing the South or our Nation a good service."