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While governor of Mississippi, Bilbo instituted a statewide [[sales tax]]{{fact}} and caused the state to become bankrupt after failing to negotiate a tax bill with the legislature.
While governor of Mississippi, Bilbo instituted a statewide [[sales tax]]{{fact}} and caused the state to become bankrupt after failing to negotiate a tax bill with the legislature.
Bilbo was a leader among other [[racist]] Democrats, such as the [[Exalted Cyclops]] [[Robert Byrd]] and [[President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], the latter of which called him "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> He claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the [[New Deal]]."<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref>
Bilbo was a leader among other [[racist]] Democrats, such as the [[Exalted Cyclops]] [[Robert Byrd]] and [[President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], the latter of which called him "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ New Deal . . . Conservatives?] ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> He claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the [[New Deal]]."<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ A History of Liberal White Racism, Cont.] ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref>
In his book When ''Jim Crow Met John Bull'', Graham Smith referred to a letter Bilbo received from the Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd when on the 1945 controversy raging over the idea of racially integrating the military.
In his book When ''Jim Crow Met John Bull'', Graham Smith referred to a letter Bilbo received from the Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd when on the 1945 controversy raging over the idea of racially integrating the military.