Word: mississippis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mental lechery in stride, but still simmer over his linkage of Native Son Lyndon Johnson with Richard Nixon in "lying, cheating and distorting the truth." Even so, Lady Bird Johnson is still a member of Carter's Texas steering committee. Carter has also lost some support in Mississippi, but Florida seems safely in his camp, and he seems overwhelmingly ahead in Tennessee, Arkansas, the Carolinas and Alabama, as well as in Georgia...
Buoyed by large and rousing crowds on his first extended campaign swing since he won his party's nomination, Gerald Ford opened the week with a three-day foray into the South. In Alabama and Mississippi, his audiences -mostly white and affluent-cheered his attacks on Carter's vow to cut the growth in defense spending and roared approval of the President's opposition to gun controls...
...Truman's convention, and formed their own National States Rights Party. The civil rights movement won crucial successes after that, chief among them the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which insured the franchise for Southern blacks and ultimately, their political power in states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, where they comprise between 30 and 40 per cent of the total population...
ODDLY ENOUGH, the creation of a genuine conservative party in response to the aspirations of Southern blacks has liberated the Democrats. So many blacks now vote in Mississippi, for example, that a candidate for state office needs to get only about one-quarter of the white vote to win if he or she receives a solid black vote. One of the great significant changes has been the Southern blacks who have been voting nearly 100 per cent for liberals like Jimmy Carter, Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, and Gov. Cliff Finch of Mississippi. Southern Democrats...
...Chamber of Commerce crowd--they're all for Ford; but the people who don't talk--the dirt farmers--are going to vote for Carter." He added something to the effect that a heavy vote from those who didn't say much was enough to carry the state of Mississippi any time...