“Thank God for Mississippi!”
The UNofficial motto of the state of Arkansas in the 1950s through 1970s. The official motto back was “The Land of Opportunity!” but only if you left the state for better jobs and wages.
Sadly now NEW MEXICO has beat Mississippi out as having the worst schools. Sixty years ago NM schools were great! What happened?
And by the way, Benton and Washington Counties in Arkansas are doing GREAT! Not like the poverty ridden rest of the state. All that Walmart Money flowing into those two counties counts for something!
Happened: New Mexico fell in battle, in the cultural civil war - language and skin color ascended in leftist directives, and thereupon, social pride followed . . . to the fall.