re: What's the worst state out of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama?

I'm going to cop out a little bit here and say the worse "area" is both Louisiana and Mississippi above I-10.

The best part of Louisiana is on or below I-10/I-12 in New Orleans, Northshore, Lafayette and Cajun Country as a whole. Once you get above I-10 in Louisiana, the food isn't nearly as good and you really go into more generic southern culture.

Same with Mississippi, on or below I-10 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is an underrated gem (that sadly is getting more discovered). Bay St. Louis, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Diamondhead, Ocean Springs are all places I could easily live. But Mississippi above I-10, the only nice places cities really are the college towns (Oxford and Hattiesburg) and some of the Memphis suburbs (Olive Branch and parts of Southaven). But in general, there's not much appealing to either Louisiana or Mississippi above I-10/I-12.

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I lived in both states and Mississippi has slightly better roads, a slightly cheaper COL, and you are closer to more fun things that are an easy weekend drive away. Louisiana your option is basically Houston

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This is low key something that also keeps me away from Louisiana. Louisiana geographically is just so isolated. Southeastern part of Louisiana, your only weekend trip is basically to the Alabama beaches or some of the western Florida beaches. Southwestern part of Louisiana, your only weekend trip is Houston. Northern part of Louisiana, I guess you could say Dallas, Memphis and maybe the Ozarks/Branson. But still, it's just so isolated.

You can’t say a major US city belongs in another state because it feels like it belongs in another state. It doesn’t work that way. Memphis is a Tennessee negative, not a Mississippi one. Memphis’ actual Mississippi suburbs of Hernando, Southaven, Olive Branch are all great places to live and comparable to the areas of coastal Mississippi that people love.

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Baton Rouge MSA is 36% black

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I would've thought it to be higher, but maybe my view is skewed by just looking at Baton Rouge.

All three have nasty gulf water

Current status
Alabama
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Future status
Alabama
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Jackson and New Orleans are pretty much complete shitholes.

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Louisiana wins on economy. It has double the GDP of Mississippi, equal to Alabama, while it has a higher per capital GDP than Bama. Bama has beaches and some nice Appalachian foothills areas, but little else. New Orleans is amazing to visit, but terrible as a place to live. All three are brought down by their northern regions.

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You're smoking crack if you think that North Alabama is dragging down the state as a whole. Just sayin'.

When in Long Beach, don't drink the water. It's naturally rich in smelly sulfides. I remember coming down with dysentery when we lived there back in the 1950's. I was just a kid, but the pain and the diarrhea isn't easily forgotten. Now back then commercial bottled water wasn't readily available. It is now so you drink the tap water at your own risk nowadays.