Believe it or not . . .
Mississippi is going on the offensive against the negative image in which it apparently thinks "Hollywood" portrays it, with its new "Mississippi . . . Believe It!" campaign. Although the campaign strikes me as "the lady dost protest too much, me thinks", I also think that the playwright Tennessee Williams was brilliant, Grisham is entertaining, Faulkner is overrated, and that I have been remiss in never having read anything by Eudora Welty.
posted by Diane at 8:13 PM
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I seem to recall a line by Willie Morris (another fine Mississippi author--read "North Toward Home" or "Taps" or "My Dog Skip") pointed out how Mississippi has an indirect correlation between the percentage of illiterate and the number of fine authors
C'mon down to Mississippi. We ain't tooo dumb, Alabama's dumber n us.
sage - I'll check out those books! And an interesting correlation . . .
pru - that's kind of how this campaign strikes me - hey, we're not nearly as bad as they say!
It's like a Conan O'Brien skit or something.
adam - you hit the nail on the head!
File this under strange. Is California running a "we aren't as different as you think campaign?"
I've always wondered it Tennessee was Mr Williams real first name or a nickname?
For the record, the "Good Old Boys" campaign was my favorite.
adam - agreed! ("look we have even elected some of them black folk and woman folk - oh and an Indian Chief!"
I read Richard Wright's Native Son in college. I read something bu Eudora Welty in college, too, but the title escapes me.
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