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Derek Jackson has asked about this, before, but most of his threads didn't get much traction.
Regardless, Mississippi was black majority until 1940. What if Mississippi was still black majority in the 60s? How many soldiers would be necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act? How much white flight would there be?
We can be sure of one thing, though, Mississippi would be a Democratic state, given how racially polarized the parties are in the American South. BTW, if the 2000 election, as it happened in our timeline, wasn't butterflied, Al Gore would win, due to winning Mississippi's electoral votes.
Regardless, what would this timeline's Mississippi look like?
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