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Among topics discussed: Why Davis ran against Mankin; the black vote; Davis's connection to Judge Sheppard Bryan; Mankin's profanity; attitude toward Mankin; belief that Mankin wanted him out of office; reasons he finally lost to Weltner. ; James Davis (1895-1981) was a Democratic opponent to Helen Mankin in 1946 election; Superior Court Judge from 1943 to 1947; Fifth District Congressman 1947 to 1963; and member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1925 to 1927.

AbstractWe study the effectiveness of the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) in reducing nitrogen pollution in surface water bodies. We use a Kitagawa‐Oaxaca‐Blinder (KOB) counterfactual decomposition method to quantify the role of income and policy in reducing nitrogen pollution in waterbodies. Our results show that the MRBI policy for the 2012 cohort of implemented watersheds across five states (Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee) experienced a 43% reduction in nitrogen concentrations when comparing the 2009–2011 pre‐treatment period to the 2012–2018 post‐treatment period. Decomposition results show that 79% of the improvement in water quality from policy treatment is derived from an endowment effect, driven mainly by location‐fixed effects that include cross‐sectional mean differences in income, among other characteristics. Results also show that 21% of differences are derived from the coefficient effect or differences in the response of policy‐treated watersheds compared to a set of control watersheds.