I knew that about Hyde-Smith blocking Colom's nomination to the US District Court, but not that Jeff Davis was a senator from Mississippi. Oh, the ironies abound with this election! Finally, the South is moving in the right direction. Cry more in Hell, Jeff Davis!
thank you for the backstory between Colom and Hyde-White. Colom is another of this year's excellent candidates, with a great story and political temperament, and as you say a class act. too fitting if Hyde-White exits the stage (probably on the wrong side) because of a man whose appointment she scuttled without a thought—perhaps her default state.
As a New Englander, the deep south has always been very alien to me (Disclaimer: I did live in New Orleans for a while and loved it). Their most famous standard bearers during my formative years were cranks, racists, and flat out segregationists (still are in many cases). While I don't expect white southerners to suddenly become defenders of woke, if ten years of MAGA is what it takes to awaken a sleeping giant of common decency across places like Mississippi, it won't have been a *complete* disaster.
From your mouth to God's ear.
I knew that about Hyde-Smith blocking Colom's nomination to the US District Court, but not that Jeff Davis was a senator from Mississippi. Oh, the ironies abound with this election! Finally, the South is moving in the right direction. Cry more in Hell, Jeff Davis!
thank you for the backstory between Colom and Hyde-White. Colom is another of this year's excellent candidates, with a great story and political temperament, and as you say a class act. too fitting if Hyde-White exits the stage (probably on the wrong side) because of a man whose appointment she scuttled without a thought—perhaps her default state.
As a New Englander, the deep south has always been very alien to me (Disclaimer: I did live in New Orleans for a while and loved it). Their most famous standard bearers during my formative years were cranks, racists, and flat out segregationists (still are in many cases). While I don't expect white southerners to suddenly become defenders of woke, if ten years of MAGA is what it takes to awaken a sleeping giant of common decency across places like Mississippi, it won't have been a *complete* disaster.