The next successful Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, deliberately chose a citadel of white supremacy – the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi – as the kickoff site for his presidential campaign, where he declared his support for “states rights,” code words signaling that the federal government should leave local jurisdictions to handle the “race problem” as they see fit.
-James W. Loewen
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