Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perspective will also begin to publish pieces by adult politicos, such as a planned analysis of the changing political tides of the South by former Mississippi Governor William F. Winter...
Today, Madson looks out over the frozen horizon from his home near the Illinois bluff by the Mississippi River with a sense of foreboding. "I don't think the farm culture will pass," he says. "Farmers want to farm. They will keep on until all is gone...
While President Reagan widened the gap between the North and the South, Winter says, "Reagan was popular even though his policies don't necessarily serve the economic best interests of the state." Most people in Mississippi, he says, voted for Reagan because of his personal appeal...
Winter adds that the candidacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson polarized the South, and that most whites felt disillusioned by the Democratic Party. Mondale got less than 20 percent of the white vote in Mississippi, he says...
Winter graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1943. While attending law school in 1948, he won a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives...