Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predominating. Unsurprisingly, there was a wide regional range of opinion. Ministers in border states such as Delaware and West Virginia were almost unanimously in favor of integration. In Kentucky 89% were in favor, in Texas 87%, in the District of Columbia 86% and North Carolina 84%. In Arkansas and Mississippi only 54% were in favor of integration, and the least integrationist sentiment of all was in South Carolina, with only 50% in favor...
...Come off it- that's not the Mississippi Heart Hand. Any dope could trap somebody with that. Here is the real hand...
...used to place Virginia way above its Southern sisters, next to Vermont and Wisconsin in godliness, but now I can't help but cram it down into the bottom of the barrel along with Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. But, maybe ole Virginny just ain't what...
Farmers. Most farmers remain prosperous; yet west of the Mississippi, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson "remains a prime liability . . . Some Midwestern Republicans are showing themselves more popular than the President because of their known opposition to Benson's farm policies...
Said one young Methodist pastor in Mississippi last week: "There are plenty of us, of all denominations, working quietly and discreetly to promote racial tolerance and ease the way for the integration that eventually has to come. But publicity is the worst thing we could have. Christianity needs its martyrs. But it needs its underground...