♫Some folk'll never burn a cross, but then again some folk'll,

It's Haley, the slack-jawed yooookelllll♫

secretive?

Ever Barbour campaign ad will have Dueling Banjos playing in the background.

I'll leave this here:

Hillbillies with racist agendas is a step up from Mississippian.

Better to remain silent and be thought of as hillbillies with secretive racist agendas than to have your Governor run for President and remove all doubt

Cagey B: ♫Some folk'll never burn a cross, but then again some folk'll,

It's Haley, the slack-jawed yooookelllll♫



Approves

This stuff surely won't help:

JACKSON, Miss. - A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to sponsor a series of state-issued license plates to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, which it calls the "War Between the States." The group proposes a different design each year between now and 2015, with Forrest slated for 2014.


Forrest, a Tennessee native, is revered by some as a military genius and reviled by others for leading an 1864 massacre of black Union troops at Fort Pillow, Tenn. Forrest was a Klan grand wizard in Tennessee after the war.

Sons of Confederate Veterans member Greg Stewart said he believes Forrest distanced himself from the Klan later in life. It's a point many historians agree upon, though some believe it was too little, too late, because the Klan had already turned violent before Forrest left.

"If Christian redemption means anything - and we all want redemption, I think - he redeemed himself in his own time, in his own actions, in his own words," Stewart said. "We should respect that."

State Department of Revenue spokeswoman Kathy Waterbury said legislators would have to approve a series of Civil War license plates. She said if every group that has a specialty license plate wanted a redesign every year, it would take an inordinate amount of time from Department of Revenue employees who have other duties.

SCV has not decided what the Forrest license plate would look like, Stewart said. Opponents are using their imagination.

A Facebook group called "Mississippians Against The Commemoration Of Grand Wizard Nathan Forrest" features a drawing of a hooded klansman in the center of a regular Mississippi car tag.

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Thank god for Mississippi

/West Virginian

Thoguh: Well, look at the public perception of Alaska since Palin came along. I'd say it's a pretty valid concern.

/Yeah, I get the joke, but as a former Alaskan I hate that Palin is now the first thing people thing of when someone says "Alaska".

It's either that or that retard who starved himself to death in the school bus.

What is wrong with being a hillbilly?

/take'n it back

Subby, you are spreading lies and slander. Mississippi does not have hillbillies. Hillbillies, by their very name, come from hilly or mountainous areas. Mississippi has rednecks and as Dr Dreidel points out, racist yokel hicktards.

Barbour is, at his best, abysmal. The main reason he won his last election (other than our 'we only vote Republican' blowhards) is that the man running against him was just as loony. The 'Democrat' ran on a 'bring prayer back in school' and so on platform.

It was like if Palin and Beck debated each other for a position.

Me and wife are working on plans to move to NJ or NY. I hate the idea of running but this place is just so godawful. Not to mention my health.

My only hope is in the youth here...

Mississippians worry a presidential run by Gov. Barbour will cause the rest of the nation to broadbrush them as hillbillies with secretive racist agendas.

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I don't know. I moved to the Atlanta metro area from the Midwest, and frequently have to go downstate for political functions, and the South isn't any more racist than the Midwest was. They just aren't as good at hiding it, and it isn't as institutionalized. They hate gays way more down here, though.

As an Alabama resident, we praise god for Louisiana and Mississippi. If it wasn't for these two states, we'd be dead last in everything.

Isn't this the governor that hangs out with a well known white supremest?

We don't give Mississippi the bad rep, Mississippi does it on its own.

HighOnCraic: This stuff surely won't help:

JACKSON, Miss. - A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

I usually let the Southern heritage thing go, but that's blatant trolling.

Joliet_Jake: I don't know. I moved to the Atlanta metro area from the Midwest, and frequently have to go downstate for political functions, and the South isn't any more racist than the Midwest was. They just aren't as good at hiding it, and it isn't as institutionalized. They hate gays way more down here, though.

As a northerner living in the deep south, here's the main difference I've found:

Up north, whites, blacks, Hispanics, etc. self segregate where they live, but will socialize and eat at the same places. In the south, ethnic group self-segregation extends to restaurants, retail, supermarkets, etc.

And it's worth mentioning that there is a small, but very vocal group minority of whites who cannot get over the Civil War.

thornhill: As an Alabama resident, we praise god for Louisiana and Mississippi. If it wasn't for these two states, we'd be dead last in everything.

Believe me after living in GA all my life I used to make the usual AL jokes, that is, until I lived on the MS Gulf Coast for 10 months.

/We ain't got nuthin on those folks

Rapmaster2000: HighOnCraic: This stuff surely won't help:

JACKSON, Miss. - A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

I usually let the Southern heritage thing go, but that's blatant trolling.

Wait, what?

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Mississippi: Last in Education, First in Obesity

In an effort to fact check your assertion, it does appear TRUE that Mississippi is the most obese state with 34.4% of the population meeting the definition of obesity (a BMI of 30 or more)according to the CDC. (new window)

What is wrong with the south?