SOUTHERN history books, says our Atlanta bureau chief, Joseph Kane, contain many references to dastardly "Yankee journalists" who went South to feed on the carcass of the vanquished Confederacy. The antipathy has lingered into modern times. But in reporting for this week's cover story on the new South and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, Kane found as one sign of evolution a moderating attitude toward the press: "Even the courthouse gangs that run local politics are becoming more tolerant of itinerant reporters."
The TIME cover staffers, however, could not have been considered carpetbaggers even in the old days. Rather they lived in Dixie...
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