Mississippi Republicans have an ear for this stuff. Brandon is one of the places where it works. It?s a suburb of Jackson, a classic white-flight town with residents who don?t mind talking about why they flew. ?I moved here in 1996 from Jackson,? says Buddy Davis, a retired Army veteran who ?isn?t crazy? about his candidate choices, ?because the other race was taking over. It wasn?t safe. There was a shooting just about every day.? Mississippi is 37 percent black, and Jackson is 79 percent black; in Brandon, it?s only 17 percent. The black Republicans I meet in Brandon, like Newt supporter Keith Hall, still talk about Jackson as an example of how society stops working when the government?s swollen and people lose their values.
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