[MuttTheHoople]

I heard somewhere that if you were to take 16 counties in the Delta away from Mississippi, we'd actually rank in the middle of many of these surveys.

What Hollywood and many outsiders think of Mississippi, I think of the Delta. You go there and it's like going back 40 years. The casinos in Tunica and the 4-laning projects have improved it (formerly, it was like going back 70 years), the Delta has to be home to some of the poorest, most ig'nant people I've ever come across.

[L98Fiero]

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

What’s interesting about MS is the wife and I have a combined income of less than 100K and live in relative luxury. Oddly, that is thanks in part to MS being the poorest state as a result of what you mentioned. It’s a paradox.