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To: upchuck

They claimed they would boycott Mississippi if we voted to keep our flag. Which we did, it’s now the official state flag. When they first threatened us with that particular blackmail, we told them “Go right ahead.” At least where I live, I can’t see any signs of boycott. That’s one good thing about being a poor state. You don’t have much to lose when threatened with economic blackmail anyway, makes it easy to stand on principle. Not that standing on principle should ever be the difficult choice. But like the song says, “freedom just means nothing left to lose” at least for us.


17 posted on 12/20/2010 4:18:48 PM PST by mrsmel
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Did you know that a small MS high school has one of the best solar cars programs in the country. They have won race after race and even went to Australia to compete. The school has a boys team and a girls team. Search for Sundancer solar car.
25 posted on 12/20/2010 4:41:36 PM PST by MamaB
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The situation here in SC is much the same. The NAACP made a lot of noise but have been a paper tiger. I’ve not heard of any adverse effect from their supposed boycott.


50 posted on 12/20/2010 5:46:22 PM PST by upchuck (When excerpting please use the entire 300 words we are allowed. No more one or two sentence posts!)
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