Others have mentioned or anticipated State Farm's withdrawal from the Mississippi homeowners' and commercial insurance markets in the wake of the Jim Hood/Dickie Scruggs campaign against them (Krauss; Olson; Wallace; Adams; Rossmiller). But how many tie in Hurricane Katrina, Dickie Scruggs, Jim Hood, Trent Lott, and William Wordsworth? I provide a historical perspective in today's American.

Dickie Scruggs and Jim Hood have a proposed solution to the State Farm withdrawal: tell them they can't write auto insurance, either. That will make Mississippians better off!