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« on: June 19, 2012, 05:21:31 PM » |
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In MS at that time, your presidential ballot didn't simply have the candidates on it. Instead, you had to vote for a slate of electors who were intending to support a candidate. So instead of voting for Dwight Eisenhower or Adlai Stevenson, you would either vote for electors pledged to vote for Eisenhower, electors pledged to vote for Stevenson, or electors who were unpledged.
As to why they picked unpledged electors? Disagreement with the Eisenhower administration over its use of federal power to force school districts to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the Democrats' selection of a northern, liberal pro-civil rights candidate, racism.
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