Word: mississippi
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...dreams have always had a regional distribution in the South: Virginia and Tennessee seem to fit the Hospitality pattern well, while Alabama and Mississippi have to be the natural haunts of the lurking Klansmen. Southerners, of course, are aware of this. And those in the Deep South respond with an even more aggressive Southern Hospitality than the kind Virginia dispenses with quiet confidence. And so it is in Alabama and Mississippi that the Southern schizophrenia--the simultaneous existence of the two myths--is most apparent...
...have to look too hard to see why. White schools in the South are no gems -- Alabama ranks 49th among the school systems of the country, and Mississippi proudly follows at number 50. But the eagerness of black children to get into the white schools suggests how bad the black schools must be. And the suggestion of how bad they must be is only a pale hint of how bad they...
Black schools in Alabama and Mississippi, without exception, are ramshackle, decaying, understaffed and overcrowded. Alabama spends about $1500 per year for each white student in school. That's not much, but it's more than twice as much as the state pays for black students. Things are worse in Mississippi, where two years ago the state board of education coughed up a little less than $250 to pay for the education of each black student in the black schools...
...Deep South itself, Mississippi--with its title of "Poorest State In The Nation" and its legendary smalltown sheriffs--may be more glamorous than Alabama; but Mississippi's notoriety has made it the target of many more civil rights projects than have ever come to Alabama. It's possible to make a good case for Southwest Georgia as the most segregated area in the country, but Georgia also contains semi-progressive Atlanta and black legislators like Julian Bond. South Carolina has Storm Thurmond, Louisiana has Leander Perez, and Arkansas and Tennessee have their residual rednecks. But for over-all misery--that...
...Mississippi and the Deep South problems of the liberals are quite different. The blacks and the white liberals while a significant voting block can never influence party policy--the polarization is too great now. The only way to change the policies is by building a parallel party structure outside the state structure. This involves isolating the liberal block further, and brings up another major problem, what happens when the liberal block realizes that it is a chronic minority with no hope of ever winning office. Even with national party recognition as in Mississippi this problem is being faced...