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    1. Matthew Zeitlin‏Verified account @MattZeitlin May 27

      reading about elvis's childhood is a good reminder of how poor the country used to be, especially the deep south. born at home, oil lamps, outhouse, his dad was a "common laborer," who eventually worked on new deal and war projects, his mom's dream was that he finish high school

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    2. Nitish Pahwa‏Verified account @pahwa_nitish May 27
      Replying to @MattZeitlin

      I remember this really striking me while reading Path to Power, all the descriptions of the deep poverty and deprivation of the Hill Country (and the significance of what LBJ brought to the region through his early govt positions)

      4 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    3. Matthew Zeitlin‏Verified account @MattZeitlin May 27
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      tupelo was one of the first places to get electricity from the tennessee valley authority, when only 2 percent of households in rural mississippi had electricityhttps://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/thread-through-time/tupelo-the-first-tva-city/ …

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    4. Nitish Pahwa‏Verified account @pahwa_nitish May 27
      Replying to @MattZeitlin

      And yet Goldwater won Mississippi even after proposing to sell off the TVA …

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    5. Matthew Zeitlin‏Verified account @MattZeitlin May 27
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      FDR put up stalinesque numbers in lee countypic.twitter.com/JOREAQPSp7

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    6. Nitish Pahwa‏Verified account @pahwa_nitish May 27
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      That drop from FDR's last term to Truman's election is really something!

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 27
      Replying to @pahwa_nitish @MattZeitlin

      They all went to Thurmond's Dixiecrats, tho, not GOP. So even that shows residual party loyalty.

      6:54 AM - 27 May 2022
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        1. Rob Clarick‏ @RobClarick May 27
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          And all those Dixiecrats went to Goldwater in ‘64, some via Byrd/Thurmond in 1960. For some reason the TVA no longer was their highest priority.

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