Mississippi
is a
state
locatit in the
sootheastren region
o the
Unitit States
. Mississippi is the
32nt maist extensive
an
32nt maist populous
o the
50 Unitit States
. It is mairchit bi
Tennessee
tae the north,
Alabama
tae the east, the
Gulf of Mexico
an
Louisiana
tae the sooth, an
Arkansas
an Louisiana tae the wast. The state's wastren boundary is lairgely defined bi the
Mississippi River
.
Jackson
, wi a population o approximately 175,000 fowk, is baith the state's
caipital
an
lairgest ceety
.
The state is hivily forestit ootside the
Mississippi Delta
aurie, that is the aurie atween the Mississippi an Yazoo rivers. Afore the
American Ceevil War
, maist development in the state wis alang riverfronts, as the watterweys wae creetical for transportation. Lairge gangs o sclaves war uised tae wirk on cotton plantations. Efter the war,
freedmen
begoud tae clear the bottomlands tae the interior, in the process sellin aff timmer an buyin property. Bi the end o the 19t century,
African Americans
made up twa-thirds o the Delta's property awners, but timmer an railwey companies acquired muckle o the laund efter the financial creesis, that occurred whan blacks war facin increasin racial discrimination an disfranchisement in the state.
Clearin o the laund for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasin the severity o fluidin alang the Mississippi bi takkin oot trees an bushes that haed absorbed excess watters. Muckle laund is nou held bi agribusinesses. A lairgely rural state wi agricultural auries dominatit bi industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked law or last amang the states in sic meisurs as heal, eddicational attainment, an median hoosehaud income.
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The state's
catfish
aquacultur
farms produce the majority o farm-raised catfish consumed in the Unitit States.
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Syne the 1930s an the
Great Migration
o African Americans tae the North an Wast, the majority o Mississippi's population haes been white, awtho the state still haes the heichest percentage o black residents o ony U.S. state. Frae the early 19t century tae the 1930s, its residents war majority black, an afore the American Ceevil War that population wis componed lairgely o African-American sclaves.
Democratic Party
whites reteened poleetical pouer throu disfranchisement an
Jim Crow laws
. In the first hauf o the 20t century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for wirk an opportunities in northren an midwastren ceeties, wi anither wave o migration aroond
Warld War II
tae Wast Coast ceeties. In the early 1960s, Mississippi wis the puirest state in the naition, wi 86% o its non-whites livin ablo the poverty level.
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In 2010, 37% o Mississippians war African Americans, the heichest percentage o African Americans in ony U.S. state. Syne regainin enforcement o their votin richts in the late 1960s, maist African Americans hae supportit Democratic candidates in local, state an naitional elections. Conservative whites hae shiftit tae the
Republican Pairty
. African Americans are a majority in mony coonties o the Mississippi-
Yazoo
Delta, an aurie o historic sclave settlement in the plantation era.
- State govrenment
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