1.   And if there is a black whom whites would vote for, some blacks say they would view that person with suspicion.

2.   But we will never get there so long as it is official policy to assume that whites will vote only for whites and blacks will vote only for blacks.

3.   For all its progress since those ugly days when only whites could vote, Mississippi now faces an embarrassing reminder of its worst old instincts.

4.   If black contenders run effective campaigns, she said, whites will vote for them.

5.   The premise of those efforts was that whites would seldom vote for blacks, and so the deck had to be stacked to help black candidates.

6.   Voting is still largely along racial lines, with the vast majority of blacks consistently voting for black candidates and about two thirds of the whites voting for whites.

7.   Voting was largely split along racial lines, and coalition candidates say that whites voted to preserve a patronage system that has served them well.

8.   Whites voted for them.

9.   Whites vote for whites.

10.   Whites voted for Prop.