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  • "The South" also means NASCAR and dirt-track car racing, Gulf Coast beaches and the tail end of the Appalachians, Bible Belt civil religion and low-ranking public school systems, the KKK and a racism that is at once strangely polite and simultaneously ruthless.

    Lee C. Camp: Moving Beyond 'Clash Of Civilizations' Lee C. Camp 2011

  • "The South" also means NASCAR and dirt-track car racing, Gulf Coast beaches and the tail end of the Appalachians, Bible Belt civil religion and low-ranking public school systems, the KKK and a racism that is at once strangely polite and simultaneously ruthless.

    Lee C. Camp: Moving Beyond 'Clash Of Civilizations' Lee C. Camp 2011

  • There was no drinkable water, no television and only dirt-track roads.

    Travelling round the world with children 2011

  • With the Test match bowlers decamping to Brisbane to acclimatise, the dirt-track attack took the opportunity to show that they too could play a part should they be called upon, bulldozing their way, on a skittish first-day pitch, through a top order of young guns with an eye on the baggy green.

    Ashes 2010: England's back-up bowlers state claims against Australia A Mike Selvey in Hobart 2010

  • Nobody believed "Johanna" of The Lady, who, inveigled to the dirt-track racing at the White City, pronounced that she "did not regret a bit missing the amusing 'bathing party.'"

    'Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age' 2009

  • What about some of the other racing you have been involved in, like IndyCar and dirt-track racing.

    Questions for: Tony Stewart 2009

  • Volusia [a dirt-track near Daytona] has had an average of 44 cars during the events this past week.

    Questions for: Tony Stewart 2009

  • BMX is a dirt-track race with plenty of jumps — and plenty of opportunities for catastrophe.

    'Swifter, Higher, Stronger' 2008

  • The internet more of a dirt-track than a highway and cloud computing was invented.

    Buy to Own versus Rent to Read Martyn Daniels 2008

  • The internet more of a dirt-track than a highway and cloud computing was invented.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Martyn Daniels 2008

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