[vetvetdoug]

Highway 72 runs thru the Northern part of the County as per previous posts...the majority of the white population lives in the Southern part of the county...the county is 67% White/33% black and you yourself notes the county seat is predominantly white. The population around 72 in the Northern part of the county is mostly black...as for any trouble with citizens of Benton County, I have had mixed experiences with them....like the man from Benton County that wondered into a nursing home here and shot a woman to death.

Any county in NE Mississippi that is predominantly Democrat is going to have a significant number of voter fraud and government fraud (medicare/farmers) issues.
I see you signed up to the FR today....8-3-07....

[AlexW]

I lived just over the boarder in Tennessee, but much of my business was in Benton County...Farmers, government, and businesses. I ran the mobile phone and other radio services prior to Cellular.
There are a lot of good people in Benton, but I admit it is
pretty low on the totem pole in culture and services.
It was about 30 years ago when I helped a friend who was running for sheriff of Benton. I was a pole watcher for him in the village of Michigan City and at that time vote buying with the blacks was common. It took only a half pint or a few beers to have a voter declare that he needed someone to go in the booth with him. Needless to say, my friend lost.