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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: What Mississippi makes people think of...
Message-ID: <307@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 19:47:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 19:47:04 1983
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Do we really need to propagate this sort of misinformed bigotry
on the net (George Wallace is from Alabama, for instance)?
Especially about a state that's not represented on the net
so it can't defend itself?

Flamers:  I'm not saying that many of the incidents referred
to didn't happen, or even that the reputation of the state as
shown by the poll may not be correct.  However, there was certainly
a large amount of plain prejudice and misinformation.  In any case
what possible good does something like this do?
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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