C. J. Reid on Missouri "Whistling Dixie"

by Michael Sean Winters

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The neo-confederate positions of some conservatives in Missouri politics is disturbing in its own right. But, at HuffPost, C.J. Reid shows how that backdrop frames the situation in Ferguson.

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