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I've been through that state several times and I wasn't never really scared. However, it seems everytime I get off the interstate, it turns sour.
For example, when I passed through Meridian, I stopped at a McDonald's to order coffee. The place was dirty and the service was kind of slow. When I got the coffee, it was burnt. Oh well that happens, but every other McDonald's I've been to will throw out burnt coffee or remake it. I didn't make a fuss about because it seemed like the people working the front didn't care either way.
By the time I got to Laurel, MS, it was time for lunch so I ate at a pizza place. It wasn't horrible, but the tables were not being cleaned off and frankly, it looked nasty.
On the way back through MS, I stopped at an Arby's in Hattiesburg and the place was filled with smoke. Apparently something was burning in the back. But that didn't seem to bother the customers.
I then stopped for some gas (also in Hattiesburg) and heard the THUMP THUMP THUMP of radios blasting in the parking lot. While I was getting on the interstate, a car flung a rock into my windshield.
I said heck with this, I'm just waiting until I get to Alabama to eat and got out of Mississippi as fast as I could.
I'm sure Mississippi isn't a horrible place, but my experiences through there kind of tainted my view.
I can't say I'm actually scared to travel to any state, but there are certainly parts of some states I just would not go to.
Black folks have wry jokes about some places that are known for being very dangerous in the past, as in "the trees are high in Mississippi (or Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, etc)", and while I wouldn't expect to be lynched if I just passed through, I know there are lots of areas in the South (and North and East and West) where I would fear for my safety simply because of what I look like.
Whoa, dude you living in the 1950s or something lol
In the South of 2011, the black man's biggest enemy is...the black man. I'd feel safer walking barefoot on a red dirt road at night through some Mississippi town filled with the KKK than I would driving through one of the ghettos in New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston, or Memphis.
Atleast if the klansmen get me, I'll be on CNN ....if I get killed in the hood, I'm just another N that got shot.
I am terrified of states in tornado alley, and states where earthquakes are frequent.
Also, I am scared of New Jersey because of how bad the roads are laid out, and the whole no left turn thing makes it very very easy to get lost anywhere south of Bergen county.
As for crime, every state has good parts and bad parts, it's odd but I can't see myself fearing a whole state because of that.
I am terrified of states in tornado alley, and states where earthquakes are frequent.
Also, I am scared of New Jersey because of how bad the roads are laid out, and the whole no left turn thing makes it very very easy to get lost anywhere south of Bergen county.
As for crime, every state has good parts and bad parts, it's odd but I can't see myself fearing a whole state because of that.
IMO, these are sensible reasons. However, for what it's worth, I lived in Tornado Alley for almost 30 years and I've never seen a tornado.
I would never visit Mississippi. I'm sure I would get in an argument/fight with a local over their imposing religious views and closed mindedness.
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