Nuking Mississippi and Radioactive Babe

MISSISSIPPI WAS NUKED IN OCTOBER 1962, NOT BY SOME CRAZY RUSSIAN COMMIE, BUT BY AN EQUALLY CRAZY AMERICAN PRESIDENT, LYNDON JOHNSON.  I WAS ONLY ABOUT 20 MILES FROM GROUND ZERO ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI IN HATTIESBURG. THE GROUND DID SHAKE, BUT NOT DUE TO SOME LUSCIOUS COED ON THE CAMPUS OF USM.  THE SITE IN QUESTION WAS IN LAMAR COUNTY, MS.  AND TO GIVE DUE CREDIT TO THOSE FEDERAL OFFICIALS CONDUCTING THE TEST, THEY DID GIVE RESIDENTS IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA OF THE BLAST A WHOPPING TEN MINUTE NOTICE.  SOME TWO YEARS LATER WE WERE NUKED AGAIN, BY THE SAME INSANE MAN BEHIND THE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE.  MOST WHO REMEMBERED THIS EVENT HAVE PASSED ON AND THE HISTORY BOOKS HAVE ALL BUT IGNORED THIS GROUND SHAKING EVENT.  AFTER ALL WHEN DID THOSE IN THE MSM EVER GIVE A FU*K ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IN DIXIE.  THE ONLY TIME THEY EVER PROMOTE A STORY ABOUT THE SOUTH IS WHEN IT FITS INTO THEIR PROGRESSIVE AGENDA.  THERE IS GREAT LITTLE POST OVER AT GOODSTUFFs CYBER WORLD  ON NUCLEAR FEARS DURING THIS TIME SPAN.  IF YOU GET A CHANCE CHECK IT OUT!

JUST A FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY:  I RECALL THE ELECTIONS OF 1964 AND THE FACT THAT LBJ WON MOST OF THE STATES IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.  POLLS THAT EARLY SEPTEMBER SHOWED HE WOULD LOSE CERTAIN DEEP SOUTH STATES INCLUDING MISSISSIPPI.  IT SEEMED QUITE STRANGE TO THIS OBSERVER THAT OF ALL THE NUCLEAR TESTING SITES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST HE WOULD  PROMOTE A SITE EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO CONDUCT SUCH A TEST.  I FIRMLY BELIEVE HE WAS SENDING A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF MISSISSIPPI TO FALL IN LINE OR ELSE........!  LYNDON JOHNSON AND JOHN KENNEDY WERE NO FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH WITH ONE SENDING  THOUSANDS OF FEDERAL TROOPS INTO A SMALL SLEEPY MISSISSIPPI TOWN AND THE OTHER NUKING THE SAME STATE.  AND ONE MAY ASK WHY WE DON'T LIKE DEMOCRATS IN DIXIE!!!!!!!!