Word: mississippi
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Yocknapatawpha County, bound by the Tallahatchie and Yocknapatawpha Rivers in northern Mississippi, is one of the most remarkable landscapes created by the American imagination. Notably similar...
...MISSISSIPPI: Permanent registration IN PERSON is required and all voters must pay an annual $2.00 poll tax. Registered voters may obtain ballots by writing to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county of residence 10 days before the election. Ballot must be notarized. The proper affidavit must also be filled in with the name of the voter who will set as the agent to deliver the ballot to precinct officials on election day. Veterans are not required to re-register unless local county officials have ordered...
Residents of the following 20 states must register in person before their local board to be permitted the absentee ballot: Alabama, Connecticut, Deleware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming...
...States' Righters crowed; Louisiana was the fourth state in which the regular Democratic organization had walked out on Harry Truman. The others: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina. There was no longer any question that the Dixiecrats were capable of cutting deeply into Candidate Truman's electoral vote in the once-solid South. The rebels already counted 45 of Dixie's 148 electoral votes in their bag. After "Hummon" Talmadge's victory last week (see Georgia), they were also expecting Georgia...
Nora didn't want to settle for a magnolia & moonlight life on her father's Mississippi plantation. Her discontent spilled over: "Sometimes I wish I were a nigger or an Indian or anything that would keep me from having to be myself, Nora Potter, who goes to parties and pays calls, and sits by quietly, with nothing to say, while Mama does all the talking." Mama really talked incessantly, but now that Nora was up North, she too found her tongue, and ended by talking too much. She told her cousin Austin King, who was already married, that...