The article that I found was written by Alan Smithee. This name is a pseudonym used by Hollywood directors from 1968 to 1999 in order to write about films which had seen their creative control of the film wrested from them. The author felt that in this movie brought to the attention of the audience the ideological beliefs and following of the people in the "KKK" during the 1960's.
"Mississippi Burning brings out precisely the imperviousness of a Southern community to change - the intractability of economic and social oppression. At a time when the anti-liberal values of small town America still seem in the ascendant, and when the Supreme Court is whittling away at the achievements of the 1960's, the films underlying message is that all those battles have to be fought again and much harder than before."During the film, the popular beliefs held by the men who killed the activists. It also brings to attention the beliefs of the two "G-men", played by William Dafoe and Gene Hackman. The head to head competition of the ideological beliefs of the two sides in the conflict represents the "political" views of the many people involved in the battle in the small town.
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