I don’t think it will. The whole world was going to boycott us (Mississippi) over our flag vote too. Of course, times were different even just those few years ago, and I could be wrong. But the people of Mississippi are very stubborn, and don’t take kindly to blackmail even if our leadership winds up knuckling under. I find it hard to believe that Gov Bryant didn’t take all this into account when he made his stand. One good things about being a consistently poor state, it helps when you ain’t got much to lose in the first place.
I won’t hold my breath for the day The New York Slimes reports on the fact that Mississippi has come in first place for app a decade for the state which gives the most to charity relative to its wealth. (and it’s true charity, not endowments for the arts and such things for the entertainment of rich people, such as some states have included in their rankings for “charity”. Nothing wrong with that kind of giving, but it’s not succor to the poor).
I’m just biding my time until the media gets bored with us, as they always do if we Mississippians just let their criticism just go in one ear and the other without deigning to respond, and move on to more exciting stories.
Mississippi has some good points, like the treasure that matters not always being that which is sitting in an earthly bank account. Maybe because the boastful pride of life means less to them, they don’t make such a big deal of money, or even (to a point of literacy) education.
They get flouted as ignorant “First Self Righteous Church of Pascagoula” rednecks, but they also are used to it. They’re probably actually happier. I thought I read only a couple years ago how the last abortion facility in Mississippi was about to go under — not that it had been banned, which is currently impossible under Roe v. Wade, but that almost nobody was using it.