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Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:35 pm to jimjackandjose
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ghetto?
The invention of the tractor and farming corporations put an end to the delta and delta towns.
Over 90% of the farms in the delta are family owned just like the rest of the US
It might be inc but it’s still family owned
all these big bad corporate farms are few and far between in this country
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:38 pm to DeltaDoc
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Mississippi Delta like you see Italians now who came to the Delta 150 years ago as workers.
About half the restaurants in the delta are owned by 3rd generation Italians.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:40 pm to Midtiger farm
Hang around until dusk, it will become the Mosqghetto. Worse Mosquito's I have ever seen.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:41 pm to jchamil
Hes probably confused on location. Shipbuilding in Mississippi is in Pascagoula, on the coast. About half of the U.S. Navy fleet is/was built at Ingalls.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:42 pm to Reservoir dawg
Probably 25% of farms are owned by at least partial Italian families. It seems like half the farms in Washington and Bolivar Counties are owned by Italian families that go back generations.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:42 pm to KemoSabe65
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Bonita & Jones
Bonita is actually not that bad and far from ghetto and damn, Jones is a cotton gin and a feed store. Most of the homes in Jones are duck camps.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:45 pm to Reservoir dawg
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Hes probably confused on location. Shipbuilding in Mississippi is in Pascagoula, on the coast. About half of the U.S. Navy fleet is/was built at Ingalls.
Quite a bit around Tallulah and Vicksburg.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:48 pm to Reservoir dawg
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About half of the U.S. Navy fleet is/was built at Ingalls.
I knew Ingalls was the big dog. I just thought there was one in Greenville and maybe a couple more in the area
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:49 pm to MWP
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Bonita is actually not that bad and far from ghetto and damn, Jones is a cotton gin and a feed store. Most of the homes in Jones are duck camps.
I killed a lot of ducks around there as a kid. Then the migration patterns started to fluctuate for some reason after staying the same for a hundred years or more. They still have good years but when I was a kid a bad year was unimaginable.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:52 pm to Salmon
A few factors
Farming made huge shift from human labor to machinery over the past 30 years. Thanks to minimum wage.
Factory work ended when trade policies made it more lucrative to move outside of the US.
Farming made huge shift from human labor to machinery over the past 30 years. Thanks to minimum wage.
Factory work ended when trade policies made it more lucrative to move outside of the US.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:53 pm to shinerfan
WRP/CRP, land forming, more efficient harvesting,,etc...have changed Delta duck hunting forever. It’s all about habitat.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:59 pm to DeltaDoc
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Probably 25% of farms are owned by at least partial Italian families. It seems like half the farms in Washington and Bolivar Counties are owned by Italian families that go back generations
Very true. We played Washington school (Greenville) when I was in high school and over half the team had Italian last names ending in a vowel
This post was edited on 10/10/19 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 10/10/19 at 3:59 pm to TulaneFan
Drove through from Vicksburg to cross into Arkansas below Tennessee a few years ago.
It didn't look that poor along Hwy 61 above Cleveland. I saw plenty of black dudes driving duallies and drinking coffee with white farmers at several stops for us to stretch out legs. The lad is flat and water leveled for sure. Every dwelling visible from the highway looked to be well maintained, not new but in good condition. Which reminded me of rice farmers in SW LA and SE Texas back in the day who lived in wood frame houses and paid cash annually to give the wife a new luxury car.
It didn't look that poor along Hwy 61 above Cleveland. I saw plenty of black dudes driving duallies and drinking coffee with white farmers at several stops for us to stretch out legs. The lad is flat and water leveled for sure. Every dwelling visible from the highway looked to be well maintained, not new but in good condition. Which reminded me of rice farmers in SW LA and SE Texas back in the day who lived in wood frame houses and paid cash annually to give the wife a new luxury car.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 4:00 pm to TulaneFan
Do you history?
Posted on 10/10/19 at 4:01 pm to LSUFanHouston
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the wealthy send their kids to the elite private schools
at thinking pillow academy and clarksdale lee are elite schools. I’ve got a bunch of friends from there and they would laugh at that statement Posted on 10/10/19 at 4:19 pm to bad93ex
LeTourneau had a large jack up rig shipyard on the south side of Vicksburg, and there was a DDT plant formerly making boll weevil pesticide similar to ricin, also made fertilizer in Vicksburg. Also, some canning plants at Greenville. Otherwise its nothing but ag chemical distributors, cotton gins and tractor sales and maintenance.
Also there is a refinery at Vicksburg.
Vicksburg is the southern end of the delta area.
Mechanization put many out of work.
Also there is a refinery at Vicksburg.
Vicksburg is the southern end of the delta area.
Mechanization put many out of work.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 5:01 pm to Mstate
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To be fair, they should be considered elite compared to the alternative/relative to the public schools in the area.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 5:07 pm to TulaneFan
I mean... Slidell is hardly what I would call affluent.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 5:12 pm to TulaneFan
Not whites folks fault that black folks want to keep up the victim mentality
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