[ExI] Mississippi flag

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, I was living in the metropolis of Cheneyville. LA. pop. 700 or so
when an election for U. S. Representative was being held in that parish.  I
am sure you know of Huey Long.  Russell Long served in the U S Senate for
quite some time.  Anyhow, Earl (then governor of LA, for the third
time,having walked out of the state mental hospital saying he owned it)
came through our town on a flatbed truck, handing out hams and buckets of
lard.  A country band played.  Sadly, I was such a snob at the time, I did
not want to see a drunken man in his wifebeater undershirt make a fool of
himself, and us.  My sister went and told me about it.

My uncle was to have run against him, but in the middle of the campaign
came down with stress backaches which put him in the hospital, and heralded
the stress backaches I would have in grad school.

Earl's house was a part of his image.  On the outside it was pure country
low class.  On the inside it had all the modern conveniences.  Earl won
easily, but died of a heart attack before he could serve.

Who said "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage."  Hoover was
and was not said to have said it, but it was the way things were done in
the South in the 30s through the 50s.  I  wonder what percentage of the
Blacks' votes were bought. I am guessing very high.  There is talk of
campaign irregularities nowadays, but they couldn't hold a candle to those
in the past.

bill w

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 2:44 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…but somehow, with the impetus of the NCAA, the legislature voted to
> change it.  Do we think that another vote of the people would have gone any
> differently this time?  HA!!  ROFL
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> This was certainly not the best way to gain minority rights, but it
> worked.  Shame on us - NCAA running our state - indeed!   bill w
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> BillW, sports run many states, not just Mississippi.  Granted the southern
> take their sports seriously than most, but the important part is that
> minority rights won.  In this case the 1/3 minority who voted for the flag
> change had twice as much influence in the state as the majority in the
> state.  Well, that’s the beauty of democracy: the voters will be selecting
> a new state legislature in a few months.  The USA is a republic, but the
> states are democracies.
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> In the meantime, I see a reason to be very optimistic.  Consider how life
> was as recently as a century ago.  Economics dominated every aspect of
> life, including (perhaps especially) politics.  This guy managed to win an
> election by promising… chickens.  He’s offering chickens:
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> Do you suppose chickens would steer an election today?  I think not.  Now
> society is generally prosperous, with the result being that we look to
> entertainers and sports figures to influence our government.  At one time,
> politics was dominated by necessity.  Now it is highly influenced by sports
> and entertainers. technology and science have enabled our politics to be
> dominated by playtime and leisure.
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> Voters were hungry in the olden days.  Most days are the olden days.  In
> most of humanity’s history, most people were hungry.  We are the lucky ones
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