Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Mississippi: Closed Society...
...years ago, Ike lost only Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, the Carolinas and the Border State of Missouri to Adlai Stevenson...
Arizona Roy Elson California Pierre Salinger Connecticut Thomas Dodd Delaware Elbert Carvel Florida Spessard Holland Hawaii Thomas Gill Indiana Vance Hartke Maine Edmund Muskie Maryland Joseph Tydings Massachusetts Edward Kennedy Michigan Philip Hart Minnesota Eugene McCarthy Mississippi John Sfennis Missouri Stuart Symington Montana Mike Mansfield Nebraska Raymond Arndt Nevada Howard Cannon New Jersey Harrison Williams Jr. New Mexico Joseph Montoya New York Robert F. Kennedy North Dakota Quentin Burdick Ohio *Stephen Young Oklahoma Fred Harris Pennsylvania Genevieve Blatt Rhode Island John Pastore Tennessee Albert Gore Ross Bass Texas Ralph Yarborough Utah Frank Moss Vermont Frederick Fayette Virginia Harry Byrd Washington...
...Deep South was a different story. Not since Reconstruction had Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi sent a Republican to Capitol Hill. But in 1964, the only Republican on Mississippi's congressional ballot scored the state's greatest political upset in memory: Prentiss Walker, a hard-shell poultry farmer, ousted William Arthur Winstead, who had been in the House for 22 years. In rural Georgia, Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a slick-campaigning textile millionaire, topped former Lieutenant Governor Garland T. Byrd, who was hurt by Johnson even though he had refused to go even halfway for L.B.J. In Alabama...
...Mississippi...