If Alcorn ever achieves such diversity, he says, it will be because white Mississippians decide they can be comfortable here.

Whether they owned slaves or not, however, most white Mississippians became both defensive and emotional on the subject of slavery.

A large percentage of white Mississippians vote Republican in statewide races.

Many white Mississippians have long venerated the University of Mississippi as sacred space.

The reports had a "jarring impact" upon white Mississippians and many responded by joining the White Knights.

A majority of white Mississippians showed on Tuesday that they are not ready to accept the truth about their history.

They also detail the profound hatred that many white Mississippians held for civil rights workers.

By the 1880's the barbarism of convict leasing had become an embarrassment even to white Mississippians.

They say Judge Pickering, like many white Mississippians, has moved beyond his all-too-common origins.

After a decade of strife and tension over civil rights, many white Mississippians were fearful that the end was near.