Who Knew...

...that Mississippi has the highest percentage in the nation of same-sex couples raising children (41%)?  Or that the highest concentration of African-American same-sex couples live in MS?  (Go Wikipedia Go!!)

And how we re-write history...

From the article "Racial Equality - MS Style" in the now defunct For A Change magazine,

William Winter, one of the architects of Clinton's new initiative on race, grew up on a farm on the edge of the Mississippi Delta. What turned him into a reformer? He talks to Robert Webb.

In the Mississippi where William Winter grew up, racial segregation was rigid and racial disparities deeply ingrained. Yet, as a former governor of the state, Winter has been perhaps the main catalyst of what may become the greatest legacy of the Clinton administration: an intensified approach to binding up the interracial wounds of the United States.

Winter, who was Governor of Mississippi in 1980-84, brought a wealth of experience to his work on the national Racial Advisory Board. Equally important, he brought a vision of the nation's human and cultural diversity as its strength and glory. The board's final report, issued in September, focussed on the need for improvements in public education and called for a permanent presidential commission to help bridge racial, cultural and ethnic divides.

I love teh research! 

Comments

[weboy]

The second part actually doesn't surprise me; while I was working on my posts for the Mississippi primary, I was struck by the numbers about the black community there - more of the population, poorer than much of the nation. It somehow wouldn't surprise me that it's there, rather than an urban enclave (which is in many ways the white, gay way that gets assumed to be every gay person's way of life) where you'd find people having the community where they're most comfortable.

And boy are we on the same page... And don't tell me you don't fit the "certainly gayer" approach round these parts. :)

[Redstar]

Agreed re: AA ss couples. What you may find MORE fascinating is that it has the 5th highest concentration of Hispanic ss couples, and the 9th highest of elderly ss couples!

Clinton on Leno!!