“What do you suppose was their motivation for going down to Mississippi to stir up trouble?”
To stir up trouble for political purposes.
By "political purposes", do you refer to some means of gaining political power, such as in Washington DC?
So people from the NorthEast, deliberately travel to the South to stir up racial troubles because it somehow translates into power in Washington?
I'm not trying to be funny or anything, I have pinged several people whom I wish to make aware of this idea. I have been trying to make them aware of this idea for quite some time, and I regard your statements as relevant to the point I have been trying to get them to see.