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IN his notes Jimmy Carter remembers trying to copy the habits of black boys. In his poor community in peanuts, the closest of those close to his skin color did not participate, and he wanted to fit. But Mr. Carter lived in the big house; His friends are in the tenant. In the plains, Georgia, it still seems surprising that the white child who was always out of the place in Jim Crow South became the thirty -ninth president of America. On December 29, he died, 100 miles, a mile from his birth.
When Mr. Carter rose in politics, the people of the plains began to be proud of their quiet city. Boz Godwin, former mayor and pharmacist Mr. Carter, says the locals began to “maintain the cleanliness of their arenas.” Before the 1976 preliminary elections, 98 Georgia went to New Hampshire to strike the doors for him. The city’s records claim that this is the first time that many volunteers have traveled from the nominated country to the country to the campaign. Mr. Godwin remembers his parents taking the train north with the “Sudanese Bean Brigade”.
Lore Lore says that as soon as you get the red clay crusher covered between your fingers, you cannot get it out. So when Mr. Carter Washington left one time as president, he returned to his childhood. In the Maranatha Baptist Church, dozens of rows of seats lined up with a berries velvet, he led the Bible study. His lessons attract tourists who ate and then shop in the city center. It is the “Economy of the Sunday School” that kept the plains to be viable while other countryside cities wither.
Mr. Carter formed the plains in other ways as well. In fact, it made it anomalies in the deep south as it was. One resident says: By inviting blacks to the home to get dinner and help women become deacons in the church, “I tell people that new things were acceptable.” Nile Aryali, a friend who maintains a group of his handwritten poems in a drawer, says, but stands at the pulpit every week, year after year, the former president did not talk about politics.
This week, the procession of Mr. Carter will take the north to Atlanta, after the highway after the peanut fields that still feed the region. Although the boycott barely voted in favor of Kamala Harris – the family of Mr. Carter says he was stuck in the care of the residence to throw his vote for it – they say Donald Trump is carrying the city. Today, the road to the big city is designed with signs for the upcoming Republican president. For some people in the plains, it is a sign of the amount of change; Others have a little reminder. ■
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