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Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:07 am to cbr900racer22
ehh...at least venice/buras is close to somewhat of a saving grace city
Where exactly are people going to in the delta to visit?
Where exactly are people going to in the delta to visit?
This post was edited on 3/19/24 at 10:11 am
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:10 am to Loup
You take out like 5 or 6 counties in the Mississippi delta and the states poverty rate, education rate and many others skyrocket.
I have a lot of good friends from the delta. Mainly greenwood, clarksdale, Greenville. Delta people love that way of life and for those that I know their families have land they farm or own an ag adjacent business so they do well. It can be beautiful land but mostly depressing just seeing all the dying old towns.
I have a lot of good friends from the delta. Mainly greenwood, clarksdale, Greenville. Delta people love that way of life and for those that I know their families have land they farm or own an ag adjacent business so they do well. It can be beautiful land but mostly depressing just seeing all the dying old towns.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:12 am to Mstate
No one from Louisiana should be shitting on Mississippi.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:13 am to LSUballs
More than once I thought about moving to that region
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:15 am to Loup
I lived in Vicksburg back in the mid 90's and worked around Tallulah La. Vicksburg seemed OK enough at the time, I don’t know what it's like now but to your point, it's an extremely poor region.
Now on the west side of the river, if you really want to see old, poor and run down. Make your way to Lake Providence. Back in the 90's Lake Providence had one redeeming quality and that was a bakery that made a fantastic Italian cream cake. Don't know if it's still there or not.
Now on the west side of the river, if you really want to see old, poor and run down. Make your way to Lake Providence. Back in the 90's Lake Providence had one redeeming quality and that was a bakery that made a fantastic Italian cream cake. Don't know if it's still there or not.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:15 am to cbr900racer22
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Buras/Venice will give them a run for their money.
I don't understand why people live down there unless they have employment in something nearby. It's not exactly a convenient place to live and there aren't a ton of jobs other than those surrounding fishing, shipping, and mining (is there any mining left?).
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:15 am to medium rare
Welfare and food stamps.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:17 am to Walt OReilly
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No one from Louisiana should be shitting on Mississippi.
For better or worse, I’ve always viewed the difference in our states as Mississippi is more financially segregated, so they really just ignore the non tax paying areas of the state and let a few areas prosper (Madison, Ocean Springs, Flowood, Oxford). While Louisiana’s government spreads things around just enough that everyone kinda suffers.
They both suck, but Mississippi's (overall) lows are lower and highs are higher.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:18 am to shellbeachspeckzzz
Phillips County is one if not the poorest County in the nation.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:20 am to Bottom9
Helena had as many murders in one weekend as Chicago.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:21 am to dchog
Damn.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:22 am to Loup
Why is it called the Mississippi Delta when it is not the Mississippi Delta. The actual Mississippi delta is about 250-300 miles south of what they call the Mississippi delta.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:22 am to WillFerrellisking
Where would you work?
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:23 am to Loup
Half my family lives in the delta. Not as bad as this video makes it out to be.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:24 am to Pandy Fackler
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Make your way to Lake Providence
Lake Providence is one of the places I was thinking of when I watched the vid
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:29 am to BROpaneTANK
Louisiana has a lot more opportunity to make money through several things that Mississippi lacks. There is probably 500x the amount of oil and gas being produced in LA than MS and mineral owners get a lot of that. 3 of top 10 ports in the US are in LA. MS has 0. There's dozens of refineries and industry that MS lacks. There's much more seafood opportunity here than MS. NOLA gets tons of tourism, MS gets none. Casinos in Shreveport and Lake Charles attract Houston and Dallas residents. MS is too far for those cities.
There are somewhat large companies in LA like Valero, Total, Marathon, Shaw Group, Centergy, Centrylink, Entergy, Cajun construction, Dow, BASF, Exxon, Air Liquide, Oxy, I believe Shell has one, dozens of other large ones. I don't think one single company like this is in Mississippi besides Chevron in Pascagoula.
To me, it literally seems that Mississippi has nothing. I can't think of anything there that they have going on for them. The beaches there aren't quite yet like the ones east of it starting east of Mobile. Not any industry besides a Chevron pascagoula plant.
There are somewhat large companies in LA like Valero, Total, Marathon, Shaw Group, Centergy, Centrylink, Entergy, Cajun construction, Dow, BASF, Exxon, Air Liquide, Oxy, I believe Shell has one, dozens of other large ones. I don't think one single company like this is in Mississippi besides Chevron in Pascagoula.
To me, it literally seems that Mississippi has nothing. I can't think of anything there that they have going on for them. The beaches there aren't quite yet like the ones east of it starting east of Mobile. Not any industry besides a Chevron pascagoula plant.
This post was edited on 3/19/24 at 10:34 am
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:30 am to Saunson69
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Why is it called the Mississippi Delta when it is not the Mississippi Delta. The actual Mississippi delta is about 250-300 miles south of what they call the Mississippi delta.
quote:please stop you fricking idiot.
Saunson69
Posted on 3/19/24 at 10:31 am to LSUballs
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The Delta is pretty awesome if you're white.
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