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The Southern Politician
September 21, 1964 issue

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Mississippi has the largest proportion of Afro-Americans of any state in the Union, and since the Civil War it has always been on the lowest rung of the national economic ladder. Mississippi politics is accordingly a good index to Southern political patterns. Most of the Southern members are personally opposed to civil rights legislation, in one degree or another. A few are rabid racists; most would be middle of the road if they could. But as white racists organized in the South under the impetus of the 1954 school-desegregation decision, it became politically impossible for any Southern member of the Congress to be identified as a moderate.

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MISSISSIPPI -- Politics & government; AFRICAN Americans; INSURGENCY; CIVIL rights; RACISM; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED States
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