james c. cobb
  
  
    
      
  
  
  
      
  
  
  
    
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        April 22, 2013 -
        
  
        As the South's hard-right pols block expanding Medicaid to a population in need, they show that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer's description of the region's government as "with the handful, for the handful, by the handful" remains true today.