Word: supremest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supremest? In Mississippi, where only 6% of the state's Negroes have the vote, the issue was who would be the supremest white supremacist. Paul Burney Johnson Jr., Democratic Lieutenant Governor, had a head start as the outdoing disciple of segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. Once a man gets the Democratic nomination in Mississippi, he is usually as good as elected, but Johnson had to work hard to win the general election last week. He was opposed by Republican Rubel Phillips, who ran as a Goldwater-backing candidate and polled an amazing-for a Mississippi Republican-123,000 votes...