10/29/20 - Election Day Experience | New State Flag Vote | Book Club: Rick Bragg - a podcast by MPB Think Radio

The Election Day experience will be different this year. We look at what voters can expect as they head to the polls next week.

Then, a summer of protest and national discourse over systemic racism brought forth the end of the controversial 1894 flag. We re-visit the historic decision ahead of the vote for a new state banner. 

Plus, in today’s Book Club, a best-selling author tells us what’s so special about growing up and living in the south.

Segment 1:

Voters across Mississippi may experience long lines at polling places next week when they cast their ballots. There are more than 113,000 new registered voters in Mississippi and election officials are predicting record turnout at the polls on Tuesday. But for those who have voted before, the coronavirus pandemic is going to make the Election Day experience different. MPB's Ashley Norwood speaks to Election Commissioners Tina Hill of DeSoto County and Jacqueline Thompson of Washington County.

Segment 2:

In five days, Mississippians will vote on the adoption of a new state flag. During this summer of unrest over racial injustice -- legislators passed a bill removing the old state flag containing a confederate emblem that many deem as racist. MPB’s Kobee Vance reports on the historic decision.

Segment 3:

Rick Bragg is a journalist, a novelist and a college professor but is probably best known for his reflective non-fiction about life itself. The Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author has gathered a collection of his columns from Southern Living and Garden and Gun to put together his latest book, “Where I Come From: Stories From the Deep South.” He begins our conversation talking about what’s unique about the south.

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