[MuttTheHoople]

Mississippi has always "talked" a big Conservative game, but when it comes to nut-crunching time they're as big a bunch of flag-burning gun-grabbing babykillers as your typical dem.

In Mississippi, Trent Lott is still revered.

[laconic]

I remember at the 1976 Convention when the Mississippi delegation threw the nomination to Gerald Ford from Reagan. The same Gerald Ford who years later would claim that they nomination of John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court was one his proudest moments.