Don Daniels of the Tea Party of Mississippi emailed me a couple of weeks ago with information about the Tea Party in general and the Tea Party of Mississippi in specific. With thanks to Mr. Daniels, I’m passing it on:
The Tea Party of Mississippi (subtitled the DeSoto Tea Party) had, in November of 2010, 3,476 members from all over the state of Mississippi. I’m sure by now that membership has increased.
I believe that Mr. Daniels also founded, or assisted in the founding of The National Coalition of Tea Parties of America, which is active in at least 7 states with membership of over 20,000.
It is difficult to get exact information on the Tea Parties because of their fluid organization, and I thank Mr. Daniels for contacting me. I will pass on one other piece of information: “This is not ‘a steal your identity’ thing. We want to unify our state.”
