“Well, one night we tried something. We went to three ‘strip joints’ – they weren’t anything like what all those New Orleans places are like today, any more than the prices are – and he would order a Coke and I’d order a 7-Up and we’d fool around with that. “They wouldn’t kick you out […]

“Mississippi’s not a state; it’s a club.” This saying, once common among white Mississippians of an older generation, aptly describes, for better and for worse, the most “Southern” of states…. Today this “clubbiness” of Mississippi often transcends race and sometimes even class, especially for expatriates, but in the first half of the twentieth century the […]

On Saturday, September 29, Ole Miss met the University of Kentucky in a football game played in Jackson. Before the game began, Ole Miss students had displayed what was billed as “the largest Confederate flag in the world.” At halftime, Ole Miss was ahead 7-0, and hysteria was reaching a new peak. When the crowd […]