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To: wardaddy
"I have never looked that up....I had Freepers lecture me back in 2004 that whites in Utah voted more for Bush than in Mississippi....they lied....those dogs"

Heh, yeah, that's not possible. There's quite a number of White liberals in Salt Lake City with nothing comparable in MS (save perhaps the pig-ignorant backwoods hillbillies that think the GOP is the party of Sherman, Blanche Bruce and Hiram Revels).

"is there any state more Utah than Utah besides Mississippi?"

I'm thinking Idaho, but they're having a leftist element move in. Boise is getting taken over.

"btw....blacks used to be 38% in my home state...has it goen down and why?"

Used to be higher than that, as with South Carolina, both states once had overall majority Black populations (reflected in the Reconstruction era political representation), but from that period on, the Black population declined as there was obviously going to be little opportunity and, of course, the blatant oppression and racism, which led most to move North to places like Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, etc (whereas SC and East Coast Blacks moved to Baltimore, Philly, Newark & New York). Especially after the Great Flood back in the '20s, that sent huge numbers of Blacks out of the state (that red section of the map above in the Delta used to have counties with far greater populations 70-80 years ago than they have today). I would think the numbers are probably levelling off. Of course, there are a lot of Whites fleeing Memphis and swelling the population of some of the northern MS counties adjacent, so that might be enough to tip it a point.

18 posted on 12/13/2007 11:05:49 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“Of course, there are a lot of Whites fleeing Memphis and swelling the population of some of the northern MS counties adjacent, so that might be enough to tip it a point.”

Hope I live long enough to see that make some positive changes in Marshall and Benton Counties. I’m not racist at all but there are a lot of people with political power there that are really in need of an upgrade.


40 posted on 12/31/2007 9:16:02 PM PST by WillRain ("Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.")
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