re: What's the argument for the Mississippi flag to not be changed?

because you do not respond to extortion

You can remove all flags and statues but can legislate morality

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I particularly like the flag, though I understand why many don’t. My only wish for the new flag (we’ll end up having one soon enough) is that they keep the the horizontal rwb stripes. Put a magnolia in the upper left corner where the current confederate flag is and I’ll be happy

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I agree, I just like the colors and the replacements look dumb.

Put a magnolia blossom or the outline of the state where the battle flag is now and lets call it a day. Or a steamboat, or a guitar, anything really

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Nickelback has lasted longer than the Confederacy at this point

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Nobody here, including blacks, really gives a flying f*ck when we're all living in the poorest state in the goddamn country."

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Ironically the delta region is what makes us the fattest, the poorest, and the least educated. Which has been run by a Democrat for the past 27 years. The rest of the state does pretty well for itself and has a lot to offer.

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To me the flag represents that the south had enough of the north's BS

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AKA they wanted slavery to remain a viable institution

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Call us a traitor

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The confederates were traitors, there’s no two ways about it. Whether you think the cause worthy, they instigated an insurrection in the United States. Expectedly, they were soundly crushed and surrendered.

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in the south, there is no animosity when that flag is flown.

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Going to take a stab in the dark here and assume you’re white

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Nobody here, including blacks, really gives a flying f*ck when we're all living in the poorest state in the goddamn country."

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Ironically the delta region is what makes us the fattest, the poorest, and the least educated. Which has been run by a Democrat for the past 27 years. The rest of the state does pretty well for itself and has a lot to offer.

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Yup. You ain't tellin' me nuthin'.

And that huge area and its massive number of needy people is a major drag on us- not only on our actual economy as it stands today, but also on its future: Data is what gives others their perception and bird's eye view of geographic areas they're otherwise unfamiliar with. Problem is, many times those "others" are the ones eyeing new territory for their enterprises and industry, and when they see our numbers on a piece of paper- numbers that are so terribly skewed by a select few geographic areas of the state- they flip the page in disgust. So the cycle continues.

Parts of the Black Prarie region on the east side of the state (e.g., Macon, Brooksville, West Point area, parts of Kemper County, etc.) also play a hand in our poverty, obesity, etc., albeit not nearly as much as the Delta. There are some terribly poverty stricken areas in the Black Prairie agricultural area, but its saving grace(s), relative to the agricultural area of the Delta, is a coupling together of many factors: They're situated farther north, they can reap the benefits of the sizeable growth of industry over the past several years in the Golden Triangle area (where a major SEC university is also located), they have commerce associated with the Tenn-Tom Waterway (a factor in the growth of industry in the area), and so they have less of a total reliance on agriculture as the counties bordering that "other" river that has commerce on it as well. Oh yeah, and the Black Prairie's soil ain't as precious as the other one's: Over yonder every single space where a row can be hipped up to grow crops is going to get hipped up.

There are some sizable swaths of higher unemployment in the pine belt as well, but ain't it funny how, in Mississippi, other than agriculture being associated with unemployment and the coastline being associated with commerce, i.e., prosperity, and desirability (humans and our love for waterfront property), and maybe a "desirability index" associated with the foothills of the Appalachians, the more you gain on the Mason-Dixon Line the more contiguous and larger the area becomes regarding a lower unemployment rate relative to the more southerly situated counties below them- and it has always been that way. (Ongoing historical effects of the Reconstruction Era, anyone? Don't scoff: There's some GIS and spatial mapping of the data that shows some surprising results and indicators in the sense of the trends across large, contiguous and semi-contiguous geographic areas.)


I digress, but again, other than being in the south, and in particular Mississippi, the one common denominator that those two data skewing areas (the Black Prarie and especially the Delta) have in common is the entire society revolves around agriculture, and in particular row crop agriculture. A person without a job is still being born in these societies because not too many generations ago manpower hadn't yet been replaced by mechanization- and boy did they need the manpower.

Folks want to walk the floor and gnash their teeth and shake their hands at the racist Mississippians who keep the folks in the Delta down, but unless those hypocrites want to volunteer to starve themselves, there's not a damned thing that they or anybody else can do about the conundrum of finding a job for the people who live in an agrarian society but who don't farm. It's the nature of the beast, and if you like to eat food to survive, you'll agree. Furthermore, since those same folks in the Delta have no qualms about making more babies, those same fields outside their door that brings them so much poverty are that much more important because of the growing number of mouths to feed in this country- including themselves and their youngins.

For 99% of the common folk who live there and who are poverty stricken, the only logical way to get out of it is to GET OUT, but so many don't, and so the perpetuation continues.

And the grocery stores stay stocked.

And "Hit the road," will continue to be the logical solution to the labor supply and demand problem of the Delta, "but watch for the combines on the way out."

They already knew about the combines, though.

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In reality, in the south, there is no animosity when that flag is flown.

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No animosity from whom?