Word: mississippi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...complete list of the Gipper's signals to angry white folks that Republicans prefer to ignore, so two incidents in which Lott was deeply involved will have to suffice. As a young congressman, Lott was among those who urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing declaration of his support for "states' rights" - a code word for resistance to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters...
...Although the Mississippi Gulf Coast is still referred to as the "Redneck Riviera," and Confederate souvenirs are still omnipresent in the curio shops along the beach, the most notable features of the area are the glitzy high-rise casino hotels, the new condominium towers and shopping centers that have made it the premier vacation and retirement destination in the Deep South. This upbeat reality was overlooked last week as a new act in this ongoing battle for the soul of Mississippi played out just down the road from Eight Flags. At a small auditorium in Pascagoula, a besieged Senator Lott...
...Modernity has come to Mississippi, particularly in the last decade, with an entrepreneurial vengeance. The state's per-capita-income-growth rate over the past decade has been 16 percent above the national average, and 70 Fortune 500 companies maintain manufacturing operations in the Magnolia State. Forbes magazine recently ranked the Gulf Coast and Jackson as two of the best places to do business in America. The state will provide the central hub of the NAFTA railway corridor, and its first-rate port facilities on three commercial waterways offers economical and efficient access to national and international markets. Mississippi...
...greatest strides up from the bottom, however, have been made in race relations, due to the implementation of Civil Rights laws - all of which Lott has opposed. The term New Mississippi is not just a PR gambit - it's real. Walk into a Burger King or K-Mart or Ole Miss Library and you'll see blacks and whites eating, shopping and studying together. "Forty years ago when the state was first integrated, blacks had no rights," veteran journalist Curtis Wilke recently noted. "Today they politically control the Delta. White people are living with that reality just fine. Today nobody...
...Prejudice still exists through Mississippi, however, particularly in rural areas. But even there tolerance has taken root. During the Clinton years, it was rural juries of both races that convicted Byron De La Beckwith, the white assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Another multiracial jury recently convicted the white church arsonists that had terrorized the state.) Earlier this year, Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar, announced that she was donating her husband's NAACP papers, personal correspondence and assorted memorabilia to the State Archive in Mississippi. "That's where his paper's belong," she said. "He would be pleased...