Challenging the notion that Mississippi was always right wing

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What do you mean by "right-wing"?

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MS, whether right or left by modern standards, had very little reason to vote Republican when it came to economics.  Republicans were for nearly a hundred years the party of tariffs, which were seen as detrimental to the Southern economy.  There was also a lot of support for Free Silver for a time, often without the other things Free Silver-ites tended to support in the North such as labor unions.  Add to that the fact that the South was able to gain a great deal of influence over the Democratic party in Congress, which meant that they tended to be able to win some influence with Democratic presidents as well.