With Joe Biden in the White House it’s worth pointing out Delaware’s experience with the last wave of unrest, there was a 1967 riot in Wilmington so in 1968 when stuff was heating up after the MLK assassination the Dixie-style governor attached the National Guard to the police and maintained the city under soldiers-in-the-street occupation for most of a year until his successor (who had defeated him in an election where the issue was very salient) was installed in office

And that Delaware’s role – including in the form of Senator Joe Biden – in America’s midcentury Civil Rights crisis is as a bridge between the Dixie South and the industrial Northeast