Mississippi turning
Can people be made to change their minds about the Magnolia State?
EVEN in a state that is used to bad press, 2006 ended on a low note. First, the head of Mississippi's particularly nasty branch of the Ku Klux Klan died in a penitentiary in Parchman, stirring up memories of the state's racist past. Then Charlie Rangel, a veteran black congressman from Harlem who has never set foot in the place, suddenly remarked: “Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?”
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Mississippi turning”
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