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"culture war lords, my journey into the dark web of white supremacy." talia, you wrote a piece recently on the worrying similarities between the integration protests that were going on during my childhood in the '50s and '60s and the behavior we're seeing in the school board meetings now. you called this, quote, the biggest threat the public education system has faced since the 1950s. and warned of a resurgence of the kind of segregation -- segregation academies of that time. is this same white supremacy operating under a new name? how have tactics evolved? >> so, i would say, just to answer y...

Changed." true. times have not changed. mississippi has a dark history of racism. i wish i could say that i'm surprised that this is still an issue in 2018. but as someone who grew up in the south, still has a strong connection there, family there, not surprised at all. not surprised by any of this. the question is what do mississippi voters think? do they care that their senator joked about a public hanging? do they care that she seems to glorify the confederacy? well, we're going to find out tomorrow. so right now i am joined by scott jennings, nina turner and max boot. he's the author of "t...

Mississippi voters think? do they care that their senator joked about a public hanging? do they care that she seems to glorify the confederacy? well, we're going to find out tomorrow. so right now i am joined by scott jennings, nina turner and max boot. he's the author of "the corrosion of conservatism: why i left right." i have to say, i'm not surprised. there were segregation academies when i went to school down south. still there. my school was segregated -- was desegregated not long before i went. then they started another school. when that one was desegregated, they started a private acad...

Mean 70s and '80s told the jackson free press that he recalled, quote, making fun of the kids in town whose parents drove them 26 miles to a white academy and back, more than 100 miles a day, just so they could have a substandard education with teachers who often had little more than a high school diploma. he added, quote, the only reason people of my generation went to segregation academies was to keep the white kids and the black kids apart. segregation acad miss, that's what those schools were called, colloquially, of course. and we learned over the weekend from some fantastic reporting fro...

But not the person to vote for. there is widespread recognition among republicans that she has not run a good campaign. has not been a good candidate and this race should not be as tight as it is. they still think that she probably wins just because of the political dynamics of this state, but i think republicans privately will acknowledge she has not been a very good candidate. >> and i guess the last question here is the degree to which what white voters end up doing. there is a question of black turnout. what we saw in alabama was doug jones was able to win about 3 in 10 white voters which ...