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Regarding the topic of the thread, I have a question. For those who have lived in multiple states including MS, does poverty really seem much more prevalent in MS compared to other places you've lived?
Also, I see MS is usually #1 on lists of most affordable states / lowest cost of living states.
Yes....but, you must understand the delta is essentially a third world county. Take the delta and Jxn out and MS is solidly in there with other southern states like AL, GA, TN, etc., (obviously those states have large population centers and we don't). I realize each state has that city that is struggling (Memphis, Montgomery, etc., but Jxn has nearly collapsed).
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This bill will have no impact on anything other than giving legislators something to crow about to their church members.
Agreed, except that it has already prevented me from moving an associate into Mississippi. The man with whom I compete for Delta farmland, has opined that it will make it harder for him to get another property manager. Dowager Soybean Empress (who's not buying any more land, but already has more than she can keep an eye on), says the same.
Everybody remembers the Lockdown, and wonders what they'd do, if they couldn't even... Assuming this is an opening salvo in the initiative against Online Anonymity, which it is.
The Sodomy Laws drove people out of the state. The Anti-Gay-Marriage vote drove people out of the state. The "Pro-life" stuff is driving people out of the state - in droves. All those things, have prevented the movers and shakers and job-makers from moving to Mississippi - making the place poorer and poorer, generation-after-generation.
This newest thing, is just another nail in the coffin.
The only people who (might) actually move here because of such legislation, would be those incapable of self-analysis, honesty, or critical thinking. Maybe some of those people can afford the planned communities they're assuming are all-white (but it would take self-analysis and honesty, to actually SAY it, so...).
Oh, well, all this talk about saving Mississipians from immorality, has me in the mood to listen to Billy Ray Cyrus singin' HARPER VALLEY PTA. https://www.google.com/search?q=bill...id:M9s7kMtmzd4 And if we had any motion furniture (which, of course, we don't), I'd slip myself into a nahssss plaid Herculon recliner, turn the Massage feature on 'High', and with Billy Ray croonin', I'd find that video where Billy Marrick is unsuccessfully resisting the advances of that friendly lady cab driver. (Friends in Mississippi, don't try this! You CAN'T, anyway. Advertencia! Ist Verboten! Interdit! )
And since that isn't nearly enough to keep my mind occupied, I'd probably spend that time on the recliner, contemplating the moral implications of the Jackson Metro's little Ashley Madison Interlude: Jackson Jambalaya: You knew it was coming. (Updated)
My kindly Lutheran son-in-law, for whom English is a second language (which causes him to notice things written in English which the rest of us might not) feels it incumbent upon me to specifically state that Ashley Madison is not someone named 'Ashley', who lives in Madison. Good point, since there are plenty of Ashleys in Madison, and plenty of Lauras and Ashleys in Madison, whose rice-carved beds are furnished with Laura Ashley products. Let this serve as official notice.
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We're considering relocating to MS and this makes us far more interested in the state than we already were. It's a step in the right direction.
I lived in Memphis and traveled the whole state of Mississippi.
Choose another state to live in.
The far north of the state and the far south are the happening places to be. But I really don't even care for them. Our granddaughter is 1/4 mile from the Gulf Coast, and her homeowners insurance is almost as high as her house payment.
I lived in Memphis and traveled the whole state of Mississippi.
Choose another state to live in.
The far north of the state and the far south are the happening places to be. But I really don't even care for them. Our granddaughter is 1/4 mile from the Gulf Coast, and her homeowners insurance is almost as high as her house payment.
You're the same person who claimed Mississippi is the place of haves and have-nots.
You're wrong.
4.2% of Mississippi households are millionaires. That's 47,479 households, for Mississippi. Link
The 40% of the delta that lives below the poverty line drags the averages down. If not for that, the state would look like any other state demographically.
There certainly is nothing about Lee County (NE MIssissippi) that fits your mold.
I have spent significant time in all three of the University towns in Mississippi. They are all great. Not really different than other college towns I've been in other than the Black populations are more significant and while neighborhoods are still somewhat segregated there is movement of Black families into the nicer areas.
One of the uglier situations is that the schools (even in the small towns) for the most part are segregated with the poor Blacks going to the public schools and the Whites and Black people with resources attending the private schools. This seemed to be more pronounced in Mississippi than other places I've been or lived in.
You're the same person who claimed Mississippi is the place of haves and have-nots.
You're wrong.
4.2% of Mississippi households are millionaires. That's 47,479 households, for Mississippi. Link
The 40% of the delta that lives below the poverty line drags the averages down. If not for that, the state would look like any other state demographically.
There certainly is nothing about Lee County (NE Mississippi) that fits your mold.
Have you ever noticed the Blue and Red political map of the Southeast? The blue line starts in Memphis and goes down Hwy 61 to Greenville. Then it turns east and goes straight down Hwy 82 through Columbus on into Alabama through Montgomery on over to Macon, GA. Then it continues over to Augusta, Columbia, SC and it ends in Georgetown, SC at the Atlantic.
While this is a generalization, it's an illustration of where the really poor people in the Southeast live. And they're Democratic supporters for the most part. They're also not the best place to live in any state.
Education is many southern states are at the bottom of all U.S. public schools. I can only speak to schools in North Alabama, but it's the children living in agricultural south that drag down standardized test scores. Our schools are fine. But Middle Alabama south of Birmingham and the far southwestern Alabama have failing schools. Mississippi may have some commonalities with what I'm saying too.
I have had many friends and business associates that are very well to do Mississippians. One from The Delta was sent off to Virginia to prep school in the 7th grade, and he had a Cessna 182 personal plane sitting at the Memphis Airport when he was at Rhodes College.
One of my close friends grew up in a palatial mansion next door to William Faulkner in Oxford. His grandmother was the oldest practicing attorney in Mississippi.
And I've been to parties on Country Club Lane in Tupelo. Those are the "haves" in the State. There is still a great cultural contrast throughout Mississippi--as there are in other southern states.
My home town put a man on the moon. Jackson, Mississippi cannot even run a water department.
Mississippi comes in 13th for income inequality, just behind Alabama and Tennessee. The most unequal states are New York, California, Massachusetts, and Florida. The states with the most equality (e.g. Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah) tend to be homogeneous.
Mississippi comes in 13th for income inequality, just behind Alabama and Tennessee. The most unequal states are New York, California, Massachusetts, and Florida. The states with the most equality (e.g. Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah) tend to be homogeneous.
Yes.
The inequalities in California are almost too hard to imagine — they have to be seen to be fully grasped. The Bay Area’s enclave of multi-billionaires on the Peninsula and Silicon Valley is flanked on all sides by the largest homeless population in America. That population lives on sidewalks littered with trash, human waste, and discarded drug paraphernalia. The billionaires are just up the hill (usually), sealed off behind walls and iron gates, playing in 10K sq ft homes (one of many) enclosed by a private park. The occupants linger in custom-carved onyx soak tubs, take dips in Olympic-sized indoor pools surrounded by walls adorned with original mosaic art, and pop open 10k-dollar wine bottles on a weekly, if not daily, basis.
Yes. It's brand-new. I've had two associates back out of being moved to the region (one to Louisiana, and one to Mississippi), because of it. For retirees whose bits are still in working order, I'd imagine this will be a deal-breaker.
Age Verification effectively bans use of the free streaming services like Pornhub. I'm sure the Mob has been whispering in the ears of the White Trash Pseudoconservatives running the state (running it into the ground...). Organized Crime wants a monopoly on erotica, and is miffed that nobody wants their sick, ugly, disgusting product.
Offering a far-better alternative to Mob-produced product, amateurs, some of them pro-athletes, minor celebs (including one of my personal trainers, who was camming from one of my NYC bathrooms, without my knowledge - not understanding that the bookmatch marble is unique to my building, and the painting behind him was an original from a famous artist, and there are no copies. The marble and cabinetry in my building are distinctive, and the family from whom we bought the painting, are mainstays in our Manhattan Synagogue. One of my Trainer's "fans" in East Hampton put two and two together, and realized that it had to be me, since we'd been considering that building, are longtime clients of that famous Trainer, and would also be chummy with the Viennese family who inherited many of that artist's works: New York is a very small town. So, suddenly, I know all about how this works: much of the OnlyFans camming - generally very wholesome - migrates to the free services. I mean, what could be more wholesome than a clean-living fitness guru in a sparkling bathroom in a building where every square-foot costs several thousand Dollars?), etc., are producing what people DO want, particularly on OnlyFans, and Organized Crime is bribing politicos to shut all of that down.
After that, someone sent me a clip from $chitt's Creek, where Moira and Johnny are helping their daughter, Alexis, with her Internet Dating efforts. Alexis is horrified at how much one prospect is displaying, while Moira, totally-nonplussed, exclaims,"How did Ray get such a beautiful bathroom?" And that's my attitude about the whole thing.
Somebody in Madison County, did an image search for a world-famous Southern bodybuilder. Up came stills of him showering, in a "private" video through one of the camming services, on a wooded estate half-an-hour away, in another County. The outdoor shower was expensive, and had been described, by many, in glowing terms. At the Yacht Club, "Um, don't you have an outdoor shower with... ? Did you get to watch, while ______ was camming?" The bodybuilder is a kindly,wholesome Christian father of three, and all he was doing, was showering. And no, the socialite with the shower did NOT watch - or even know about he camming. But anyway...
You know the super-ripped guy with the long Keto-oriented YouTube integrated fitness program commercials? He's poolside, kvelling about his new discoveries, and shows testimonials from all sorts of lean, gorgeous women whose lives he's changed? He shaves between his eyebrows, and shaves his chest, so he's not my type, at all. Well, he got his starting capital, camming. I've been shown clips of his camming sessions. Ain't nothin' dirty goin'-on. It was most inspiring, actually. This is what Mississippians are being "saved" from.
Soccer stars; Rugby stars; tons of MMA fighters of both genders; uncountable numbers of fitness professionals of both genders - have videos available on those services. And even the poorest, ugliest, most-unwanted Mississippians - people too poor to travel - people with missing limbs - people too obese to function in the world - all sorts of people who've lost hope of ever-again being attractive to others - all of those poor people stuck in Mississippi and Louisiana, as long as they had Internet, had the same access to videos of these consummately magnificent humans, as did my friend calling from her twenty-seven-million-Dollar East Hampton Shingle Style beach house, within oyster-fork-throwing distance of Grey Gardens https://quintessenceblog.com/home-su...-grey-gardens/(if you know East Hampton, you'll know this doesn't narrow things down, very much). So egalitarian! So humane! ...so OVER, thanks to the quislings running Mississippi.
It's very similar to the recent health crisis, where standard cheap antiviral products and protocols were suddenly outlawed, in order to force consumption of what the big guys wanted to FORCE the public to consume.
It's like the sudden withdrawal from the market, of NMN, a supplement considered useful to seniors, now that it's widely deemed effective, which is about to have its molecule tweaked - thus becoming patentable - and will go back on the market in a monopolized form - at an astronomical price, of course - whether or not the tweaked molecule is as effective as the original one being withdrawn.But that's how things work, in il nuovo Amerigo Fascisto.
It's similar to what's happening with the state's liquor sales. The plan, as I understand it, is to keep it all a monopoly - but one that's been privatized: farmed-out to a big distributor. Who gets the distributorship? The bribes will flow...
Auto manufacturers in a competing part of the world, secretly lobbied the EU, to mandate biodegradable wiring harnesses for EU automobiles. The things have been falling-apart since the '90s. Wanna know why I don't drive Mercedes? Wanna know why I drive Lexus? It's called an anticompetitive practice: sabotage via legislation.
Maybe VPNs will override... But for how long? Maybe the real purpose is to eliminate VPNs, and thus to advance the Surveillance State. What I do know, is that I can't move associates into the region, now, and that my old employees will have another reason for finding homes elsewhere. And I sure wouldn't retire there.
And let's not kid ourselves. The "age verification" hoops they are making these companies jump through is nothing more than the religious right trying to find a way to force the porn producers out of business that won't get thrown out by the courts in a out five zeptoseconds..trying to force their religion on the rest of us.
Another building block in their construction of Ameristan.
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As poor as it is, Mississippi has impressively low crime rate. This fact is eclipsed by the fact that Jackson is the most dangerous city in the country. Usually crime rate is high where income is low, but Mississippi is actually a safer state even though the income is at bottom nationwide. Mississippi has lower crime rate than EVERY state it boarders.
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