Slavery has always been unconstitutional in Mississippi, and Southern Baptists have always been apologizing for supporting it in the first place. (Class of 2016, #38)

Slavery has been unconstitutional in Mississippi since 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified. Mississippi approved the amendment in 1995 (although that decision wasn’t sent to the U.S. Archivist until 2013), but this had no effect upon the constitutionality of slavery in Mississippi. A basic civics lesson would seem to be in order for the Mindset brain trust.

Southern Baptists did pass a resolution apologizing for their past support of slavery in 1995 (which is different than “always have been apologizing.”)

As with many Mindset List items, the primary problem with this one is not its factual accuracy—although it’s amazing how the List can screw up even the simplest facts in the interest of including the words “always been”—but that it claims that obscure events that happened when the class in question were babies shape its “mindset.”