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Following the collapse of communism, the workers of the world, from Polish shipyard electricians to American phone-company executives, are at last united, brought together by a shared anxiety about how they will earn a living. They have reason to worry. Unfettered competition, no longer constrained by political borders, now ruthlessly wipes out slow-footed firms. In order to survive, companies give their first allegiance to efficiency and profits, not to their employees or the communities in which they live and work. In the long run, more wealth is created for everyone, but that is cold comfort for the skilled...
Even when the shipyard periodically had to lay off workers, they didn't expect much in the way of government benefits--and they didn't want to be taxed to pay for them. Many workers owned a fishing boat or a vegetable patch that they could work until the yard started hiring again. When people in the Pascagoula area wanted redress against a big company, they tended to look to the courts, whose juries could be quite populist. Southern Mississippi is home to a small but aggressive plaintiff's bar, featured twice over the past year on the front page...
Trent Lott's attitudes toward the role of government and racial issues were shaped by his upbringing in Pascagoula, which was quite different from most of the South. The town was defined by the Ingalls shipyard, which offered training and good wages and lured workers from all over the region. Most workers reckoned that whatever the state and local governments did to satisfy Ingalls--and the paper mill and the oil refinery and the shrimp-and crab-processing houses along the river--was money well spent...
...express it by confronting the snobs and bigots. Instead he turned it to his political advantage. Even as he ingratiated himself with the big men and women on campus, Lott in his political campaigns lavished attention on the little people, stressing his roots as the son of a shipyard worker. Soon he had built himself another snaggletoothed majority, which helped win him election as president of the interfraternity council and as a cheerleader...
...GOODGAME, our Washington bureau chief, grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the only son of a shipyard machinist. So we thought he might be well suited to report and write this week's profile of Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who also grew up in Pascagoula, the only son of a shipyard pipe fitter. Goodgame is so familiar with Lott's milieu that many sources he interviewed began by asking him "So how's your mama?" When one source wasn't in, he was found at a meeting with Goodgame's uncle. "Everyone back home is so proud of Trent Lott...