European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the e stars and stripes sunday january 26,1966 George f. Will the South will Rise again in race for White House \ the civil War is the explanation of. It rot an excuse fur the South feeling ill used by full. Bui now Ilic South is contemplating delicious revenge in the Furm i inn curly regional presidential primary. With business were winning 73 Southern scats. In 136, 85 percent of White southerners voted for Roosevelt. Barely one Quarter of them voted for Mondale More than half of Mon Dale s Southern votes came from Blacks. Gut since 1930, the Black portion of the population has declined at least 20 percent in every Southern slate except Tennessee. In this optimistic country change implies Hope. Liberalism lost its grip on the country when in built a govern ment that showered benefits on a int groups that alien had a slake in the status l to. Such liberalism made the democratic party the party of government and govern ment s clients principally of Public employees and the poor. So in 1984, of the nation s 25 largest metropolitan areas 20 voted for Reagan. Mondale s five were Home Minneapolis is. Pau the one with the highest unemployment Pittsburg the Symbol of rust Bell distress Clevelan the Host of the democratic convention san Francisco and the Home of bureaucracy Washington. However mandate did Well with another set of 25 or Thuc Orloos Point ill Silvil Iii hts Poi Mohs what so ims fli4hts of re Tomii Kapi Bly p6sc6hb to picking Over old tots of disc Rebite a.r4uments cities. He car Rcd 20 of the 25 that lost population in the 19.70s. Growth is fastest in the South and West. Afler the 1990 census for the first time and for the foreseeable future a majority of congressional scats and electoral votes will come from the South and West. Suppose this May be a supposing Loo much a Region Al Southern primary produced a decisive result say Nunn 50 percent. Hart 25 percent Jackson 10 percent. Democrats might have a Southern strategy thrust on them and might wind up competitive nationally. How Many states Minisi cooperate to produce a critical mass for a regional primary perhaps seven. Richard Scammon who knows More about elections than can be Good for his peace of mind offers this criterion enough slates to get the morning network news shows to cover the primary from say Atlanta we have arrived at the Maria Shriver theory of history. Be gods. Cd wait Nylon poll it s in to be ouf with pipe putters and glitterati a generation ago. Nancy m it Ford and Alan Ross compiled a list of what was a and non a a standing for upper class pop sociologists have since been issuing lists of whal to in and out among the glitterati. I do the same in live language Dodge dish rag is out Ani Tea Towel is in Bushes Are out and shrubs Are in perfume is out and fragrance is in. In Campus Lingo excellent is out and Choice is in. In presiden tial parlance Kook is out and Flake is in and Pride Goth before a hubris. Trends especially among the grimly trendy do not make news but give us hints about society s values. That is Why i examine the list compiled each year by Nina Hyde in the Washington Post s style Section. Formlessness is out she reports in this year s list and shape is in corporate climbing is out and  is in. Cruises Are out and treks Are in nobody hijacked a trek. In fashion single breasted is out and double breasted is in veiled Felt hats Are out and leather hats Are in. Presumably an offshoot of the trekking trend Gucci bags Are out and Hermes scarfs Are in from which i de Duce scarves arc out and scarfs Are i Doug flu lie is out and William the refrigerator Perry is in. The item that interested me most illuminating a dark Corner of political Diplo Matic Power brokerage was this Henry Kissinger is out and in an especially cruel twist Richard Ninon is in. Talk about treks the second comeback of Nixon reflected As in a Muddy Pool by the Long decade s journey into night of super a. Tells us All there is to know about the fiercely fawning fickleness of foreign policy pharisees. A decade ago hardly two sons to the internationalist establishment Nixon was the Beetle bowed uni dieted co conspirator perpetrator of human wrongs whose Lone Good deed was the opening to Bina which Only he was Able to accomplish because he had driven out As soft on communism All the Gallant foreign service offi cers who wanted to double Cross the capitalist fogies on Taiwan. To the pipe puffing professors in their weeds und to the Ultra responsible editorialists who cheered the downfall of the ultimate anti elitist in the White House Henry Kissinger was the last outpost of reason and sound judgment in washing ton. They rallied to him Proie Cid him from the revelation of minor sins in the larger interest of detente und survival in a nuclear age. Today the foot is in the other Mouth. Richard Nixon is hailed As elder states Man master guide of the tour d horizon. The most sought after speaker to audiences thai once reviled him while Henry the a once the Sage of River House is now the outcast of poker rat with none so dour to pay him Saver once. What caused the Pharisaic flip Flop to some extent the policies of both men have changed. Nixon of the 70s, after his fall warned of the real War but Nixon of the 80s is delighting the negotiation first set by writing of real  Kissin a . 70s fend Sente against the Philistine Ria Raniles but Kissinger of the hos warns or. Reagan at the Summit of the danger of appeasement and Lack of will in fighting soviet expansionism. More important is the changed need of the members of the internationalist att Lish Mcm. Ten years ago. They needed Man on the inside like Henry who at least covered his hawkish ass with Dove s Feal i ers. Today still on the outside they he vol discovered the usefulness of the gnat outsider himself a Nixon who cover their unpopular cooing by putting Itaev Dard internationalism in harsh term. He caws of hard headed  an oxymoron synonymous with soft headed cob fron lation thereby providing the needed starch that makes the supple spin a of old Atlantic ism pm stiff. I remember excoriating Kissinger. And his legion of sycophants in the Jav while defending the Best element  Nixon policy on the burning deck was Rall the rest had fled. Now Here am decade later happily picking Henry of Lii of the hard liner lineup and snarling .1 the pussycats ionization of my old Bof to a card carrying contrarian out if the in place to be. To new Yirk Tomti