Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sensing possible upsets in two traditionally Democratic states, the G.O.P. threw money and manpower into the Kentucky and Mississippi gubernatorial elections last week. To no avail. John Y. Brown Jr. won in Kentucky and William Winter in Mississippi; each pulled about 60% of the vote. The Republicans, however, scored a net gain of 28 seats in state legislatures across the nation...
...Mississippi had a somewhat more decorous race. William Winter, 56, lean and bespectacled, lost two previous gubernatorial races to more colorful and conservative candidates. This time, Winter stressed his experience as a former state legislator, state treasurer, state tax collector and Lieutenant Governor. Since Winter has contributed articles on Mississippi history to academic journals, his intellectual side was balanced with a TV commercial showing him firing a pistol on a state highway-patrol range...
...Democrat, a Carter supporter, even a Kennedy man." Cutting coattails fast, Winter responded that Carter and Carmichael were both good examples of why businessmen should not be elected to office. Carmichael had earlier predicted the outcome: "If you've got two nice guys in the same race in Mississippi, the nice Democrat will win every time...
...activities have been reported in 22 states, from Middletown, Ohio, to Castro Valley, Calif., as well as on the aircraft carrier A U.S.S. Independence and at the Fort Carson army base in Colorado. But four out of five Klansmen are in the old Confederate states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. Most of the Klan members are blue-collar men with no more than three years of high school. About a third are women, usually the wives or girlfriends of male members. There are even a few Roman Catholic members, which is a sharp departure from the 1920s...
...natural cataclysm as had befallen the young nation. Buildings tumbled and forests were destroyed. Giant fissures opened in the ground, accompanied by a thunderous roar and a spreading sulfurous odor. Wrote one eyewitness: "The whole land was moved and waved like waves of the sea." The usually placid Mississippi became an angry torrent of whirlpools and rapids, overflowing its banks and possibly even briefly reversing course...