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September 14, 2007

Hopkins touts his experience, blasts Hood

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 9/14/7 Republican challenger Al Hopkins of Gulfport says he is more qualified for the office of Mississippi attorney general than is Democratic incumbent Jim Hood. “I am convinced the people of Mississippi want someone with experience in this job,” Hopkins told the Daily Journal editorial board Thursday. “It is a…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 14, 2007

Miss. voters being dealt ‘brown race card’ over immigration

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 9/14/7 Now in 2007, the black race card for the moment has been replaced with a brown race card, namely undocumented Hispanic immigrants. Latino workers have worked for years in poultry processing plants in east-central Mississippi and catfish industries in the Delta, and many have become integrated in the local community. A…