GEORGIA: Furriners Must Git!

. . . We's gonna get them aliens,

Their name is naught but mud.

We's gotta shoot these furriners,

Who ain't got Georgy blood.

We got to shoot old Gran'ma fust,

I hates to do it, kin'er,

She's been a good ole Gran'ma, BUT

She 'uz born in Caroliner.

This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory...

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