Hollywood exploits whatever they can make money off of. If that means making movies at the expense of Mississippi, they will but I don't see such movies so popular anymore. Having said that, I couldn't live in Mississippi years ago with my family and lifestyle. The place today sounds like a better place to live than where I live right now.
I've noticed a pattern to H'wood's civil rights movies. Whenever the present day relationship between the races seems to be for all practical purposes peaceful and placid, H'wood comes out with another movie in the Mississippi Burning genre and rubs salt in the old wounds again. But even H'wood's influence in such matters is waning fast. The generation of the Civil Rights warriors is dying off and being replaced by young people whose outlook on race relations is much more in tune with God's own plan. Just look at the Old Testament story of Moses' Ethiopian wife and his brother Aaron and sister-in-law Miriam. The future of MS is bright and prosperous and the race problems of the past will soon be just a page in the ongoing history of The South..............