Mississippi's giant house party: being white at the Neshoba County Fair. (Essay).

From: Southern Cultures | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

"In Neshoba County, Mississippi, the basement of the past is not very deep."

--Florence Mars, Witness in Philadelphia

For more than one hundred years, Mississippians have braved their long hot summer to head to the eastern part of the state for the Neshoba County Fair. For one week in late July, thousands of men and women from Philadelphia (the county seat), the rest of the state, and even farther afield descend upon the fairgrounds to create a Mississippi town of respectable size. Joined by well over fifty thousand additional visitors, including the occasional reporter ...

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