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In town after sun-baked town crowds gathered, listened with hot-eyed intentness, and cheered The Man. Even planters in the rich Delta country who had always opposed him would vote for him this time. They thought him a knave but they knew he would filibuster to death any Congressional threat to "white man's supremacy" such as FEPC (the Fair Employment Practice Committee). Nothing short of a miracle would keep Bilbo from renomination, election, six more noisy years in the nation's capital.