[Opinion] Where the Southern Strategy Belongs

From the Jackson Free Press:

But suddenly Mississippi politicians are getting a different memo?racism is not en vogue anymore. This has left some politicians scrambling, as was evident last session when several legislators first steadfastly refused to support memorials to civil-rights martyrs in the state?until citizens started reacting. Then many changed their minds, and now we have highways dedicated to heroes like Emmett Till and the Philadelphia victims?something politically unthinkable just an election ago. (Or believed to be by the conventional ?wisdom? that has shaped our politics of late).

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