Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 by Jere Nash

By Jere Nash

In 1890, white Democrats consolidated their political strength in Mississippi. For greater than seventy years, the nation was once a Democratic stronghold during which Republicans and African american citizens had little political clout. The elections of 1976, notwithstanding, marked the final time Mississippi might forged its presidential electoral votes for a Democrat. That 12 months, the state's Democratic lineup incorporated the governor, either usa senators and 3 representatives, and all yet 5 seats within the kingdom legislature. Thirty years later, Republican Haley Barbour is the nation governor, 4 of the opposite seven statewide elected officers are Republicans, either United States Senators are Republicans, and the GOP boasts sixty nine of the 174 individuals within the country legislature. Mississippi Politics: The fight for energy, 1976-2006 charts the political shift in Mississippi over the past thirty years, masking political campaigns and the fight for strength in the country legislature. Fierce debates in regards to the tobacco undefined, casinos, tort reform, schooling, and highways are all tested. utilizing broad study, authors Jere Nash and Andy Taggart--political activists from diversified parties--examine 40 years of reapportionment litigation and profile the various personalities who replaced the Mississippi political panorama. The ebook positive factors interviews with greater than a hundred and forty public officers, applicants, lobbyists, legislators, and others who show the general public and backroom pressures that formed historical past. A wide but sharply particular account of a huge transition with nationwide implications, Mississippi Politics underscores how the country has developed politically and the place it may be headed.

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77 Johnson won the committee vote; it was then take it or leave it time for both delegations. While urged to accept the settlement by party liberals and movement leaders, the MFDP voted overwhelmingly against the compromise: they sought recognition as voting delegates, not as honored guests; if they were going to accept two at-large delegate positions, the MFDP would select their own representatives. They would not be told who could speak for them. ”78 The Regular delegation likewise rejected the compromise and walked out, refusing to sign the loyalty oath.

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That he’s a nice, soft-spoken young man and comes from one of the finest families in Mississippi. But what he doesn’t know about that rough-andtumble American game called politics would fill any good-sized library in the nation. Wirt Yerger, Jr. has gone far from the faith of his fathers. —F R E D S U L L E N S , Jackson Daily News, October 20, 1957 I n the spring of 1865, soon after Mississippi had surrendered its troops, Governor Charles Clark sent William L. Sharkey and William Yerger to Washington to meet with President Andrew Johnson to make plans for Mississippi to rejoin the Union.

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