Mississippi
Mississippi’s Clarke Reed blocked Reagan but did a lifetime of good for the GOP
Clarke Reed, the grand old man of the Mississippi Republican Party, should be remembered for far more than just being an apostate from Ronald Reagan in 1976.
If not for one momentous decision in 1976, Mississippi’s Clarke Reed would be considered one of the great heroes of the Republican Party renaissance of the latter 20th century.
The reality that he spent his last 48 years detested by a swath of Reagan... [5428 chars]