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April 13, 2007

Rebuffed candidates try to get on ballots

Rebuffed candidates try to get on ballotsHearings are pending in other candidacy cases assigned by the Supreme Court: Circuit Judge Billy Joe Landrum of Laurel will hear the appeal of state Rep. Mary Ann Stevens, D-West, to get back on the ballot in the Democratic primary in House District 48. The district is composed of…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 13, 2007

Book shows how Republican South began on topic of race

Book shows how Republican South began on topic of race In Search of Another Country, subtitled Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution, documents how conservative Southerners skillfully blunted the civil rights era’s impact on the South’s politics and created a powerful new Republican political structure in Dixie. Importantly, as Crespino describes, the Republican South has cleverly…