29 Jun 2023 12:00 pm
The measure of civilization of any society is how they treat prisoners.
I learned that years ago, when I was a Reagan Republican.
Mississippi is one of the poorest, reddest, most backward and uneducated states in the Union.
They didn’t disband the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission until 1980. The last Dixiecrat in office was from there (he switched over to the GOP). Mississippi only removed the Confederate battle flag from their state flag three years ago.
But Mississippi has school children:
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In 2022, Mississippi had 457,954 students enrolled in a total of 1,013 schools in 137 school districts. There were 31,063 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 15 students, compared to the national average of 1:16. In 2020, Mississippi spent on average $9,653 per pupil.
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All 31,000 of those school teachers are college graduates and they know racism and lynching and torturing prisoners is horribly wrong, and they won’t teach the kids otherwise.
If the GOP somehow, in some way, doesn’t shed the people that support racism, lynching and torture those kids won’t vote Republican.
In about twenty five years the last Republican in Mississippi will retire, and then no more of that.