re: Is the Mississippi Delta region just one giant ghetto?

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Ever heard of Belzoni, MS? That place looks like the slums of Eastern Europe

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My 5th grade teacher was from Belzoni. She talked about it ALLLLLLLLLLLL the time, like it was a fricking utopia.

You wanna see desolate? Drive through Tensas parish on highway 65.

Imagine being one of the 0.5% of Hispanics living in Greenville, MS. Yikes.

Not at all. Land is very reasonably priced. You don't have to have any neighbors at all if you don't want them.

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I once interviewed for a job in Cleveland, MS...how bad would that have been for me?

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Cleveland isn't too bad. There's a small university there so there is a middle class that doesn't exist in other parts of the Delta. Not too far from Memphis either.

I go to court in Belzoni sometimes. It’s pretty bad

you would likely be obese

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Imagine being one of the 0.5% of Hispanics living in Greenville, MS. Yikes

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Probably a higher % living there illegally working ag jobs. MS is going bonkers right now with task forces to eradicate illegal immigrants. Most likely self defeating as they provide a good workforce for the crop, chicken, and catfish farmers.

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Not sure if they still do, but I know several farmers in the south delta were importing South Africans for farm hands as well.

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It’s the thing to do. You have to jump through hoops to get them and to stay in compliance with the labor department, but it’s the tits once they get here. They show up to work, are way more educated and mechanically inclined than the locals, basically beg to average 80 hours a week with smiles on their faces, and they go home and you don’t have to baby sit them for winter.

South Africans kind of view it as an internship and they’ll come work a handful of years and go back home. Half these bastards have farms and ranches at home that are bad arse. A lot of people go and hunt with them after they’ve had them working on the farms here.

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What major industries drive the area? I know of a few large shipbuilding yards but there doesn't appear to be much outside of that to generate income in the area.

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Shipbuilding yards?

HERE?

Those guys are getting displaced as black South Africans take more farm land from whites. They are good, hard-working, educated and skilled. The Delta is filled with them right now during the harvest.

You’ll eventually see a number of South African land owners in the Mississippi Delta like you see Italians now who came to the Delta 150 years ago as workers.