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Maybe Fat = Race in Mississippi
Maybe the correlation of Jim Crow comparisons isn't so unreasonable. There is more or less a consensus that poorer demographics tend to be more overweight than the general population, because of poorer eating habits based on what the available food choices are when one has to stretch their food budget. And in Mississippi the "poorer demographic" is overwhelmingly African-American. So, if the law targets the obese (i.e., mostly the poor) it might reasonably be perceived as having a far greater impact on poor minorities, and thus the Jim Crow comparison. The effects of the law, given Mississippi demographics, are racially biased, even if the intent of the law is not. So, while this law certainly isn't as onerous as the real Jim Crow laws, it's not unreasonable, I don't think, to draw the comparison.