Mudcat Café message #772032

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Thread #50836 Message #772032
Posted By: Janice in NJ
26-Aug-02 - 09:15 PM
Thread Name: Versions of 'Which Side Are You On?' (Reece)
Subject: RE: Versions of 'Which Side Are You On?'

Way down in Hinds County,
No neutrals have I met,
You either are a freedom man,
Or a Tom for Ross Barnett.

--- Mississippi, early 1960s

Ross Barnett was the state governor who, among other things, tried to halt the desegregation of Ole Miss. That incident inspired Bob Dylan's Oxford Town. Today Ross Barnett has a reservoir named after him.