Among the promoters of prayers before school sport has been Paul Ott, the presenter of a radio talk show programme, Listen to the Eagle, broadcast in "Bible belt" states such as Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
Moreover, the states that are most likely to vote to ban abortion such as Mississippi and North Dakota already have very few abortion clinics in any case: women who want abortions in those states already have to travel huge distances.
The president was to spend less than four hours in New Orleans and will not visit other areas of the Gulf Coast affected by Katrina, such as the Mississippi coast.
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By contrast, the poorest states, such as Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, and West Virginia, have among the lowest percentage of filers claiming the deduction.
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Forcing states such as Alabama, Mississippi and Texas to comply with Section 5 today because of a formula using 1972 voter data demeans their right to "equal dignity" with states whose election laws are presumptively valid, Mr. Rein said.
He traveled from Louisiana to affected areas in Mississippi such as Gulfport and Waveland just after the storm, when many area roads were dangerously littered with tree logs and other storm-strewn debris.
The voting barriers that King and the civil rights movement battled in the 1960s had their historic origins in such 19th century measures as the Mississippi Plan of 1890, in which the state instituted the poll tax as well as the requirement that a voter be able to read or interpret any section of the new Mississippi State Constitution.
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Moreover, America remains the world's second-largest grower of cotton (after China), and in many cases it still makes sense to weave near the farms, most of which are in such southern states as North Carolina and Mississippi, rather than to ship cotton abroad.
As the domestic market shrank, thousands of cotton farmers in Mississippi and Lousiana switched to other crops such as corn and soybeans.
For one very busy week every three months she cares for patients in Mississippi and performs procedures, such as endoscopy, to which they would never have access.
The attitude represents a contrast to what typically has happened in other coastal U.S. areas that have been hit hard by big storms, such as the Gulf Coast and rural communities along the Mississippi shoreline.
Some items, such as the Nobel medal, had been stored at the University of Mississippi.
Some parts, such as Alaska and the huge swathe of land between the Rockies and the Mississippi that came with the Louisiana Purchase, were bought.
In Mississippi, Mr Musgrove conspicuously refrained from inviting national Democrats, such as the presidential candidates, to drop in.
She said experts have noted inconsistencies in some jurisdictions, such as the relatively small number of hate crimes reports in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, where there is a large black population and a history of racial intolerance.
Connecticut and several other small states, such as Rhode Island and Hawaii, claim billionaire residents, while many comparatively large states like Mississippi and Utah have none.
PEN, a writers' organisation, who live west of the Mississippi, more than half live in southern California, from famous names such as Ray Bradbury and Elmore Leonard to a small army of New Age zealots.
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