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re: Poorest Region in the Deep South – Mississippi Delta
Posted on 3/19/24 at 2:15 pm to Midtiger farm
Posted on 3/19/24 at 2:15 pm to Midtiger farm
It is the poorest area in the nation.
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Posted on 3/19/24 at 2:19 pm to Bottom9
I don't know why this is getting so many downvotes. It is the truth.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 2:30 pm to Saunson69
Chevron is not even the biggest employer in Pascagoula, ingalls has about 9,000 employees.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 3:36 pm to Loup
I used to do title work in that region and had to drive through that area 2 or 3 times a week. Some absolutely beautiful country and small towns, and some absolutely run down, poor, distressed areas. Downtown areas of Clarksdale, Greenwood, and Indianola are pretty cool. Greenville is a horrible, with the exception of a couple of streets with historic homes. Charleston is ok downtown. Belzoni is awful. It’s a shame that so much of it is so run down.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 6:47 pm to medium rare
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There just doesn't seem to be any actual industry outside of farming. Some of the towns you wonder how anyone has a job, like yes someone has to work at the grocery stores and so forth but there is no actual like companies or industry.
Cleveland has a big pharmaceutical manufacturing company. Greenwood has Milwaukee tools and Viking. Indianola has UNFI warehouse and huge dollar general warehouse. Greenville has a big industrial area by the ports with several port related industries. There are several catfish processors around, 2 big feed mills and Protein Products in Moorhead that makes dog/cat food and such out of fish offal. There’s also a couple smaller aerator manufacturers that supply the catfish industry. And of course you have grain elevators, chemical warehouses, and cotton gins.
There used to be a lot more though. Several manufacturers and catfish processors have closed over the last decade. Hell I pass 3 closed catfish processing plants in the 7 mile drive from Inverness to Indianola. There used to be dozens more around 20 years ago
Posted on 3/19/24 at 7:22 pm to medium rare
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There just doesn't seem to be any actual industry outside of farming. Some of the towns you wonder how anyone has a job, like yes someone has to work at the grocery stores and so forth but there is no actual like companies or industry.
We lived in Indianola and isola.
My dad worked for the catfish division of Conagra foods. It was like delta skillet or country skillet. Can’t remember.
But basically you were either a farmer or worked for food processors/distributors. He worked for a catfish processor and distributor in the Delta.
There was a lot of cotton too. For miles and miles it seemed to surround us. My brothers and I would go play army in the cotton fields.
It was called country skillet.
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In 1967, the ConAgra Company in Alabama established a catfish brand called Country Skillet. After years in the industry, the business moved to the Mississippi Delta, where flat land, plentiful groundwater, and an ideal climate are perfect for raising catfish. Country Skillet moved its headquarters and built a new processing plant in Isola, Mississippi in 1977.
This post was edited on 3/19/24 at 7:39 pm
Posted on 3/19/24 at 7:27 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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They have some big deer up that way.
women too
Posted on 3/19/24 at 7:28 pm to deltaland
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Inverness
That’s where my school was.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 8:46 pm to Midtiger farm
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It’s not
It looks bad and has the most wealth inequality but there is a lot of money there
Way more that a bunch of hilly - piney wood meth havens all over the south
Issaqueena County is number 1 among the poorest counties in the country. Holmes County is number 7. Both in the Delta Region.
25 poorest counties in America
This post was edited on 3/19/24 at 8:50 pm
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:00 pm to Bottom9
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I have spent 2 weeks of my life in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas on an audit. Truly the biggest shite hole fricking waste of space city in America.
I was there for 9 months and you are right.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:11 pm to shellbeachspeckzzz
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port gibson
The City Too Beautiful To Burn
Or so says the historical monument that was there 25 yrs ago when I hunted nearby
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:11 pm to TDsngumbo
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had to drive to Ita Bina (or however it’s spelled) one day years ago for work. It felt like I drove 50 years into the past and I couldn’t believe how poor and rundown that entire region is.
Also the OP video sjowed the absolute worst of the delta. That stretch from Clarksdale to Greenville is absolutely awful
Cleveland, Greenwood, Indianola aren’t as bad. My little town of Inverness is really nice for a small delta town but is also about 60% white.
Downtown Cleveland
Greenwood
North Greenwood
^owner of heartland catfish has this house
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:20 pm 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.
Mississippi River delta is what you’re referring to.
Mississippi Delta is a cultural region
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:23 pm to Prominentwon
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Didn’t I read somewhere that at one time in US history, Tupelo and Jackson were the richest cities per capita at one point? Then the south lost the war and the 13th amendment happened.
At the peak of the catfish industry in the 90s Humphreys county was top 20 wealthiest counties in the U.S. per capita
There were so many fish farmers driving Lincoln’s they were nicknamed “Isola Fords”
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:26 pm to IAmNERD
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Issaqueena County is number 1 among the poorest counties in the country. Holmes County is number 7. Both in the Delta Region.
I have a hard time with that list. Dimmit county is in the Eagle ford shale and has benefitted tremendously as a result the last decade plus and it sits at number 4? Also there seem to be several parishes poorer than claiborne in louisiana alone that should rank above it.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:32 pm to ItzMe1972
Greenville is like stepping into a time machine. Wonderful and terrible place rolled into one.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:39 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Hunted around Greenville in the 90’s through early 2000’s. It was trending worse then, but I was shocked when I went through back in December. It looked like Mogadishu in most of the places. Not shocking the permanent cops stationed outside Doe’s.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:41 pm to dgnx6
The Conagra plant is still running it’s just not Conagra.
It’s Consolidated Catfish using Delta Pride, Country Select, and Southfresh brands they bought out and owned by about 12 stockholders. I know them well, good people. I’m actually about to be doing a lot of business with them
It’s Consolidated Catfish using Delta Pride, Country Select, and Southfresh brands they bought out and owned by about 12 stockholders. I know them well, good people. I’m actually about to be doing a lot of business with them
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