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The Good Ole Boys Club Prevails: Mississippi Legislature By D.O. Bell Vol. 3, No. 2, 1981, pp. 12-13 0nce questioned about the odd language used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, a law professor at Oxford, Mississippi, listened to a
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Amended Act Passes… By Steve Suitts Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 2-8 In a final vote showing overwhelming support from members of Congress in the South and elsewhere, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Voting Rights Act virtually as
Laments on the Demise of Tom Turnipseed By Frye Gaillard Vol. 4, No. 4, 1982, p. 31 I hated to see it a few weeks ago when ole Tom Turnipseed went up in flames. Turnipseed, of course, was a candidate
North Carolina Pays the Price By Claude Sitton Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 9-11 Americans don’t ask much of those whom they send to the U.S. Senate. A senator can usually pass muster at the polls if he tips
Delta Politics and the Almost Possible By Rims Barber Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 4-7 During the recent redistricting process, black leaders felt that it would be impossible for a black candidate to Page 5 win Mississippi’s Second Congressional
Elephants in the Cottonfields By Randall Williams Vol. 5, No. 1, 1983, pp. 19-20 Elephants in the Cottonfields: Ronald Reagan and the New Republican South. Wayne Greenhaw. Macmillan, 1982. The growing strength of the Republican party in Dixie has taken
South Without End By Steve Suitts and Allen Tullos Vol. 5, No. 3, 1983, pp. 1-2 The South has been born again in the gospel of American presidential politics. “The South is the Key” was the shorter catechism which brought
White Politics in a Black Land By Bill Minor Vol. 5, No. 5, 1983, pp. 1-5, 7-9 It was the sort of affair which a few years ago would have been unthinkable in Mississippi: an NAACP fundraising luncheon in Vicksburg,
Kissing Honest Politics Goodbye, Again? By Steve Suitts Vol. 5, No. 6, 1983, pp. 1-3 George Wallace’s election with significant black support in Alabama in 1982 reaffirmed that politics makes strange bedfellows in the South. This November, Bill Allain’s close
Voting for the “Covert” War By Staff Vol. 6, No. 1, 1984, p. 4 On two occasions during the past year, most of the Southern representatives in the US House voted to endorse the Reagan Administration’s war on Nicaragua. In