Outside of Memphis and Jackson you are as safe as any place in the country. Take your time and enjoy the culture; folks there, black or white, are friendly and helpful.
Thanks, flying Elvis, and all of you, for the advice and information.
I've actually been to the Delta several times in the past. I first went 26 years ago this month (it was still Old Highway 61 back then). On a later trip I actually drove into the flooding Sunflower River at night during a thunderstorm and had to be pulled from my car by a Clarksdale policeman. Good times!
This is the first time I have ever felt it necessary to ask if it was safe. We all know that Obama and the handlers around him are determined to bring about a race war where the Black "thesis" will defeat the white "antithesis" and bring about "socialism." I'm absolutely terrified that there are plans to assassinate Obama which will bring martial law and the criminalization of all opposition to the government. G-d forbid!