Quotation by Federal Writers' Project Of The Wor

The candidate tells us we are the "backbone of the State," and we know that it is true, not because we are possessed of certain endowed virtues, but because we are a majority and have the vote.
Federal Writers' Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State (The WPA Guide to Mississippi), p. 17, in "White Folkways," Viking Press (1938).
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