Mississippi: Right-Wing, White and Poor
Excerpt from: Mississippi: Right-Wing, White and Poor
By Olivier Cyran - Znet Mississippi differs from other southern states such as North Carolina and Georgia, where a massive influx of migrants from the North in the past decades has toned down nostalgia for the past...Visitors find the history of slavery as presented on local monuments disconcerting. In Vicksburg...the Old Court House Museum devotes a room to Jefferson Davis, the only president of the short-lived Confederate States of America. A quotation attributed to one of his slaves is posted in large lettering: “Every coloured man he ever owned loved...Published By: Resist!ca - Saturday, 23 June, 2012
