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To: Win Smith who wrote (219)	12/14/2002 4:34:18 PM
From: Win Smith	of 603

In Lott's Life, Long Shadows of Segregation nytimes.com [ clip ] Interviews with those who knew him early in life, and previously unexamined documents from his pre-Congressional career, show how deeply segregation pervaded Mr. Lott's family and social environment, and how it served him well politically. In discussing his background at a news conference here on Friday, Mr. Lott, as he usually does, called himself a product of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where his family moved when he entered junior high school. It was a place where the races coexisted more easily than elsewhere in the state, thanks to an influx of blacks who integrated shipyards and military installations in the 1940's. But Mr. Lott spent most of his childhood in Carroll County, a dirt-poor rural area between the Delta and the central Mississippi hill country, reputed then and to this day to be one of the most racist counties in the state.

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