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The Mississippi Flood
By Liberty Australia  
Thu, 27/01/2011 - 12:06pm
Mon, 23/05/1927 - 12:00am

Mencken's "The Mississippi Flood," The Baltimore Sun, May 23, 1927.

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Fri, 04/02/2011 - 8:16am — Benjamin Marks

Thanks

Thanks for making this available. I excerpted parts of it here. I was tempted to say that the Ku Kluxers of Mississippi are equivalent to One Nation in Queensland, and go on like that, but decided against it.

Thu, 15/03/2012 - 10:49am — Bill Shelton

Guns & God

The parallels with 1927 and 2012 are astounding.  Find a leftist blog and you will have found the very same language used to describe the right today.  You have to puzzle a bit at the writers inability to see the irony in his own statement:  "It is impossible to read their literature today without marveling that even rustics were so credulous.  In the whole mass of it there is not one per cent of truth."

Absolutely amazing stuff.