“There’s only one way we’re going to fix the poverty in the Delta, and everybody knows what it is,” he said. “We’ve got to legalize that shit and grow the hell out of it. We’ll be happy as clowns and rich as kings, but first we’ve got to get rid of these goddamn Baptists, Martha. They won’t let us do nothing. I want to see bumper stickers saying, ‘When We Outlaw Baptists, Baptists Will Be Outlaws.’ We need to lynch ’em like horse thieves. They’re a thorn in the Christ-side of Mississippi and I’m sick of them.

