Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern conservatism. In Georgia, party pros were upset by an apparent Muskie snub during a trip he made to the state in December; old-line Georgia whites disliked his escorting Mrs. Coretta King to church. He has some following in Alabama, but has yet to campaign there. Several Mississippi delegate votes that could go to Muskie depend on who wins the current dispute between a black-liberal coalition and party regulars who lean to Henry Jackson. Arkansas delegate votes will be in the hands of Wilbur Mills until he decides to release them. Tennessee will probably split between Jackson...
...suffrage allowed the Republicans to win the peace. Blacks registered for the first time in 1867, and, as DuBois and others have noted, they outnumbered whites in the recently re-admitted states of the South 703, 459 to 660, 181. The black majority was a sizeable one in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida and was almost two to one in South Carolina and Louisiana...
...later turned 70 of them over to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for study. Outlets were carefully blocked with wire mesh to prevent any from escaping. Still, accidents will happen, and last spring Arkansas biologists found a few white amurs in the White River, a tributary of the Mississippi. Since eight years of research had disclosed no faults in the amur, and the fish was now free in the environment anyway, the scientists released thousands of them into 15 Arkansas lakes, including one that comprises 6,700 algae-choked acres...
...Johnny Neumann from Mississippi led the country in scoring last year with an average of 40.1 points per game. Notre Dame's Austin Carr was second with 38 points per game. Who was third...
...four Republican conventions from 1872 to 1884, Bruce was a delegate-at-large from Mississippi. In 1880 he temporarily took over the chair, and later was one of nine men to garner votes for Vice-President (from the Indians, Louisiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin delegations). Had Bruce won the party's endorsement and history otherwise remained the same, Bruce would have become President on the assassination of Garfield. At the 1888 convention, which Bruce did not attend, he again received some votes for Vice-President (from Georgia and his own state of Mississippi...