Good for Mississippi.

Mississippi's yearning.

Do you yearn?

I crave. Constant cravings.

Isn't it ironic?

I've been to Jackson MS a few times. Definitely the Deep South.

I've been to Jackson MS a few times. Definitely the Deep South.

I have been to Paris a few times. Definitely Europe.

(I wish they'd give this Confederacy thing up. I love regionalism, but there's gotta be better ways to develop Southern pride. The Confederacy thing . . . come on, now. I love the South, but this shit's disrespectful at best.)

There's a lot to be proud of when it comes to Southern contributions to American culture: music, literature, food. Fighting a war to keep slaves and losing isn't on the list.

Me too. And you'd be definitely correct.

I don't think there is a lot of Confederate pride anymore.

low education rates just shows they are the least brainwashed by the NWO.

I think Ive told the story before about the movie A Time To Kill being filmed there. Samuel L. Jackson is an avid golfer and was accustomed to playing golf when away from the set. He arranged to play at my buddy's country club until he showed up at the course and the assistant pro told him "we don't allow n****** here." Just unreal to me.

First time reading that, my mind saw “NWA”.

Current Gov. Reeves’ ties to the Sons of Confederate Veterans stretch back years. In July 2013, then-Lt. Gov. Reeves spoke at the group’s national reunion in Vicksburg. With a massive Confederate flag behind him and decorative arrangements of cotton on either side, Reeves “congratulated the SCV for keeping history alive for our youth,” an SCV blogger later recalled. Other speakers at the reunion defended the Confederate "cause," recast notoriously racist slaveholders as heroes, and one even compared "the Yankees" to "the Nazis."

Then-Jackson Free Press reporter Ashton Pittman reported on those remarks in February 2019 after uncovering the blog post and a little-noticed video of some of the speeches. As a 2019 Republican candidate for governor, Reeves was already under scrutiny at the time after Millsaps College yearbook photos surfaced from his time there showing members of his fraternity wearing blackface, as well as afro wigs and some of them with a Confederate X painted across their faces.

Reeves denied at the time that he ever participated in those activities.

His fraternity, though, had a reputation for fetishizing the Old South, both at the Millsaps chapter and at other colleges and universities across the country. Yearbooks from Reeves’ time include photos of the organization’s annual Old South Ball events. In one 1993 Millsaps College newspaper article that the Jackson Free Press discovered, an ad for Reeves' fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Order, included a 1966 photo of someone dressed in a black mammy costume delivering invitations to new recruits. During Reeves’ time at Millsaps, Kappa Alpha Order was also involved in several allegations of racist behavior.

Stay classy, Mississippi:

I don't think there is a lot of Confederate pride anymore.