Mississippi Ratifies the 13th Amendment

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"I should really clean that garage...nah, I'll do it later."
 
I thought this was an Onion story the first time I read it, didn't realize it was real :lol:
 
Well better late than never!
 
Mississippi is America's :pat:

We love him, but we don't really expect much from him.
 
Speak for yourself. I've always said that Sherman should have marched further south.
 
"We are not only fighting armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, as well as their organized armies. I know that this recent movement of mine through Georgia has had a wonderful effect in this respect. Thousands who had been deceived by their lying papers into the belief that we were being whipped all the time, realized the truth, and have no appetite for a repetition of the same experience."-General Sherman
 
Gucumatz said:
You heard it here first folks! Mississippi has finally ratified the 13th amendment... in February of 2013.

Congratulations Mississippi, I am sure being the last state to ratify the amendment helps your image. :lol:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...ly-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment/
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If they hadn't ratified it you would have made fun of them for that too. You aren't a racist, you are a statist- hate against a particular state of the union.

I for one do not think of the state negatively. This is a step forward. For us glass half full type of guys, progress is progress. Maybe some day we'll hand out reparations.
 
I think it's more telling that some how it didn't get registered by the secretary of state when Mississippi tried to do this in 1995 -- that there was a state-wide elected official in Mississippi not that long ago who worked against ratifing the 13th Amendment.
 
Disgustipated said:
If they hadn't ratified it you would have made fun of them for that too. You aren't a racist, you are a statist- hate against a particular state of the union.

I for one do not think of the state negatively. This is a step forward. For us glass half full type of guys, progress is progress. Maybe some day we'll hand out reparations.
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I guess I deserved that after my OP. I actually don't hate Mississippi, personally I love being in the south more so than being in the north here in the US. It is a step forward sure for Mississippi. I would much rather be a "statist" [Which I am not] than a secessionist, or separatist, or a nullification states righter. I don't think I am wrong though that a lot of the country thinks of that particular duo of states in the area (Alabama and Mississippi) as being backwards.

And by the way that isn't the definition of a statist. You and many others use that term, without understanding what it really means - or simply misuse it
 
I just made that up. My definition would be different.

And I agree about those 2 backwards states. But they are slowly catching up with the rest of the country. It will happen (things like internet access help in things like this).

I lived in Mississippi (Pascagoula), for a short time, although I admit I was "sheltered" from the general public being in the military and living in military barracks. I did have one run in with some drunk redneck in a road rage incident. But that was just as much my fault as his (I didn't like him flipping me off). Maybe he didn't like my Virginia plates too. :)
 
I could be wrong but I thought they had to accept that amendment to be re-admitted to the union post civil-war? Perhaps acceptance vs. ratification are two different things. The second question as amendments are used as precedents in court rulings, were Mississippi Judges simply not accepting that or were they accepting it even though their state had yet to ratify it?
 
This has no legal impact. Once 3/4th of the states ratified and it was added as an amendment duly incorporated against the states it was irrelevant if that state whose name I can't be bothered to spell ratified it or not.
 
This is the kind of neutral stuff the media corporations like. It's interesting and it doesn't harm corporate interests
 
... This means nothing and has NO legal impact.
 
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