You’ll probably be shocked to learn that the prototypically-cracker governor of Mississippi, Republican Haley Barbour, thinks that concerns about commemorating the Confederacy “don’t amount to diddly.”
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Just wondering what that God person had in mind when he let Halley pop out. The man lives Palin’s bumper sticker comments.
And the RGA made Barbour the head of their association, why? Huntsman wasn’t good enough?
Was Barbour wearing a white suit and smoking a cigar when he said this? It sounds so much like a line from the Dukes of Hazzard spat out by J. D. (Jefferson Davis) “Boss” Hogg. Altho, I guess he would have said, “Ya’ll know this don’t amount to diddly-squat.”
Hey, c’mon now – the Guv’nah of Miz-sippi has a weighty historical reputation to uphold after all. Such giants as Theodore Bilbo, Fielding L. Wright, and Ross Barnett, to name but a few.
Bilbo, I might add, was the author of the lost classic “Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization”. Good stuff.
He’d be thrilled with our new president, I’m sure.
Ha! So true.
Ok, a little more snark, this from 1947:
Thank you…
Makes one long for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party again. The official one doesn’t seem to be good for anything but Blue Dogs.
One of the commenters at the Post site had a great idea: Make April 9 a national celebration. Maybe Freedom Day? Anniversary of Lee’s surrender.
doesn’t Mississippi still celebrate the 3rd monday in Jan as King and Lee (born Jan 19) day? which I guess VA no longer does. VA initially celebrated as King-Jackson-Lee day but now has made into a 4 day holiday with 3 Lee-Jackson days starting on Friday culminating in King day on Monday, if I understand correctly the new format.
You know Marse Robert really made a significant contribution to the destruction of the South. By keeping the War going for another year through his charismatic leadership, the South endured widespread damage to its infrastructure especially in railroads and the ultimate destruction of several of its leading cities; Atlanta, Richmond, Columbia (SC). Plus, the slave holders lost out financially big time as Lincoln’s plan for compensated emancipation went nowhere. It seems southern states still fail to recognize how much their stubborn resistance ultimately cost them. After Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg (July, 1863), it was time for a rational South to sue for peace. Especially, as the Union blockade was becoming more and more effective.
Is a failyah to communicate!
Some historical contrasts:
Mississippi Presidential vote
1932 – Roosevelt 95.98%
1936 – Roosevelt 97.8%
1940 – Roosevelt 95.7%
1944 – Roosevelt 93.56%
1948 – Thurmond 87.17%
1952 – Stevenson 60.44%
1956 – Stevenson 58.23%
1960 – Unpledged 38.99%
1964 – Goldwater 87.14%
1968 – Wallace 63.48%
1972 – Nixon 78.20%
1976 – Carter 49.56%
1980 – Reagan 49.42%
1984 – Reagan 61.85%
1988 – Bush 59.88%
1992 – Bush 49.68%
1996 – Dole 48.21%
2000 – Bush 57.62%
2004 – Bush 59.44%
2008 – McCain 56.18%
The 1964 election was the last election before the Voting Rights Act passed.
African-Americans make up 37% of the population (note that the percantage of voting population and registered voters might be different). It depends on how much voter suppression there is in Mississippi.
So it very well could be that Barbour is speaking for a minority (in percentage terms) of Mississippians. Barbour only got 57% of the vote in an off-year election (Mississippi’s elections are the year after the midterms; next election is in 2011.)
Those surrnde monkeys can celebrate their defeat as often as they like. Put more crudely: we kicked that @$$ before; we’ll kick that @$$ again if they really want some of this…